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maximum entropy theory of ecology

Scope: community ecology
Papers: 11 | Mentions: 13

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Definition

Theory that predicts patterns of distribution, abundance, and energetics using instantaneous values of community state variables including total area, total abundance, total species richness, and total system metabolism

Related Terms (2)

METEMaxEnt

Publications (12)

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An equation of state unifies diversity, productivity, abundance and biomass

2022Communications Biologycentral
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An equation of state unifies diversity, productivity, abundance and biomass

2022Communications Biologyframework
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Shifting macroecological patterns and static theory failure in a stressed alpine plant community

2021Ecospherecentral
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DynaMETE: a hybrid MaxEnt-plus-mechanism theory of dynamic macroecology

2021Ecology Lettersframework
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Building up Biogeography: Pattern to Process

2018Journal of Biogeographyframework
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Inferring Regional-Scale Species Diversity from Small-Plot Censuses

2015PLOS ONEcentral
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Integrating macroecological metrics and community taxonomic structure

2015Ecology Lettersframework
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On theory in ecology

2014BioScienceframework
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Empirical tests of within‐and across‐species energetics in a diverse plant community

2014Ecologycentral
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Taxon Categories and the Universal Species-Area Relationship

2013The American Naturalist,framework
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Testing the maximum entropy theory of ecology in the warming meadow

2011central
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Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

2010central

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species diversity

metric8 shared papers

Species-area relationship

phenomenon6 shared papers

metabolic rate distribution over individuals

measurement5 shared papers

species abundance

metric3 shared papers

space use

measurement2 shared papers

equation of state

framework2 shared papers

phenotypic selection

process2 shared papers

ecosystem function

process2 shared papers

maximum entropy inference

framework2 shared papers