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Macroecology

a theory predicting macroecological patterns such as abundance distributions and species-area curves from a few state variables by maximizing information entropy.

In macroecology, maximum entropy theory of ecology refers to a theory predicting macroecological patterns such as abundance distributions and species-area curves from a few state variables by maximizing information entropy. This meaning comes from Harte (2008) in Ecology.[1]

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Harte, J., Zillio, T., Conlisk, E., & Smith, A. B. (2008). Maximum Entropy and the State-variable Approach to Macroecology. Ecology, 89(10), 2700-2711. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1369.1

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