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Maximum information entropy: a foundation for ecological theory

Authors: Harte, J.; Newman, E.
Year: 2014
Journal: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 29, pp. 384-389
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.04.009

Abstract

It is shown how MaxEnt can accurately predict patterns such as species-area relationships (SARs) and abundance distributions in macroecology and be a foundation for ecological theory.

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