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

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This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns. Rather than building and combining mechanistic models of ecosystems, the approach is grounded
in information theory and the logic of inference. Paralleling the derivation of thermodynamics from the maximum entropy principle, the state variable theory...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199593426

ISBN13:9780199593422

Release Date:April 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Math Mathematics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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