Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics

By J. Harte. 2011

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MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change (2018, background): “Theoretical treatments of the species-area relationship established the connection between the number of individuals and sampled area (Arrhenius 1921, Williams 1943, Hubbell 2001, Harte 2011).”
Why are there so many species in the tropics? (2013, background): “MacArthur, 1972; Tilman, 2004), or whole-system models that focus on emergent patterns rather than underlying mechanisms (e.g. Hubbell, 2008; Harte et al., 2008; Harte, 2011; Storch, 2012).”
Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond (2015, methodology): “In addition, the Max Ent principle was implemented as a method to predict biodiversity patterns across different spatial scales using only the information on local interactions [3, 67].”
Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing (2013, unknown): “… range sizes, such that rl is equal for all l. A natural function that can be used to satisfy these requirements is the maximum entropy discrete probability distribution of a series of ordered integers (Harte 2011, equations 6.3 and 6.4), given…”