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DOI	10.1111/ele.12788
	Reinterpreting maximum entropy in ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism
	O’Dwyer J.P.; Rominger A.; Xiao X.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	1461-023X
EISSN	1461-0248
卷号	20 期号:7
英文摘要	Simplified mechanistic models in ecology have been criticised for the fact that a good fit to data does not imply the mechanism is true: pattern does not equal process. In parallel, the maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt) has been applied in ecology to make predictions constrained by just a handful of state variables, like total abundance or species richness. But an outstanding question remains: what principle tells us which state variables to constrain? Here we attempt to solve both problems simultaneously, by translating a given set of mechanisms into the state variables to be used in MaxEnt, and then using this MaxEnt theory as a null model against which to compare mechanistic predictions. In particular, we identify the sufficient statistics needed to parametrise a given mechanistic model from data and use them as MaxEnt constraints. Our approach isolates exactly what mechanism is telling us over and above the state variables alone. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS
英文关键词	Macroecology; maximum entropy; neutral ecology
学科领域	abundance; ecological modeling; entropy; macroecology; species richness; biological model; ecology; entropy; Ecology; Entropy; Models, Biological
语种	英语
scopus关键词	abundance; ecological modeling; entropy; macroecology; species richness; biological model; ecology; entropy; Ecology; Entropy; Models, Biological
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118364
作者单位	Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States; Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; School of Biology and Ecology, and Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	O’Dwyer J.P.,Rominger A.,Xiao X.. Reinterpreting maximum entropy in ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism[J],2017,20(7).
APA	O’Dwyer J.P.,Rominger A.,&Xiao X..(2017).Reinterpreting maximum entropy in ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism.Ecology Letters,20(7).
MLA	O’Dwyer J.P.,et al."Reinterpreting maximum entropy in ecology: a null hypothesis constrained by ecological mechanism".Ecology Letters 20.7(2017).