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  title info:
    title: Maximum entropy and ecology
    sub title: a theory of abundance, distribution, and energetics
  name:
    name part: Harte, John
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This 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. The theory developed predicts realistic forms for all metrics of ecology that describe patterns in the distribution, abundance and energetics of species.
  table of contents: Foundations. The nature of theory ; The logic of inference -- Macroecology. Scaling metrics and macroecology ; Overview of macroecological models and theories -- the maximum entropy principle. Entropy, information, and the concept of maximum entropy ; MaxEnt at work -- Macroecology and MaxEnt. The maximum entropy theory of ecology (METE) ; Testing METE -- A wider perspective. Applications to conservation ; Connections to other theories ; Future directions -- Epilogue : is a comprehensive unified theory of ecology possible? What might it look like?
  note: John Harte.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-252) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Animal behavior
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Entropy
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Entropy (Information theory)
  subject:
    topic: Entropy
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Natural history
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QC318.E57
  classification: QH541.28 H37 2011
  classification: 577.028
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Maximum Entropy and Ecology : A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics
    name:
      name part: Harte, John
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : OUP Oxford, c2011
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford series in ecology and evolution
  identifier: 9780191621673 (electronic)
  identifier: 0191621676 (electronic)
  identifier: 9780199593415
  identifier: 0199593418
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 110815
    record change date: 20250816210028.8
    record identifier: in00002731810
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng