On the Statistical Mechanics of Alien Species Distribution
Many species of plants are found in regions to which they are alien. Their global distributions are characterised by a family of exponential functions of the kind that arise in elementary statistical mechanics (an example in ecology is MacArthur’s broken stick). We show here that all these functions...
Main Authors: | Michael G. Bowler, Colleen K. Kelly |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-12-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/12/674 |
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