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

by John Harte

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"