The more‐individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity–diversity relationship

D Storch, E Bohdalková, J Okie - Ecology letters, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species richness increases with energy availability, yet there is little consensus as to the
exact processes driving this species–energy relationship. The most straightforward …

Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere

AD Barnosky, EA Hadly, J Bascompte, EL Berlow… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to
another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the …

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate

CJ Carlson, KR Burgio, ER Dougherty, AJ Phillips… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease
emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are …

Information theory: A foundation for complexity science

A Golan, J Harte - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Modeling and inference are central to most areas of science and especially to evolving and
complex systems. Critically, the information we have is often uncertain and insufficient …

The island species–area relationship: biology and statistics

KA Triantis, F Guilhaumon… - Journal of …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim We conducted the most extensive quantitative analysis yet undertaken of the form taken
by the island species–area relationship (ISAR), among 20 models, to determine:(1) the best …

The fractal brain: scale-invariance in structure and dynamics

GF Grosu, AV Hopp, VV Moca, H Bârzan… - Cerebral …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The past 40 years have witnessed extensive research on fractal structure and scale-free
dynamics in the brain. Although considerable progress has been made, a comprehensive …

[ספר][B] Maximum entropy and ecology: a theory of abundance, distribution, and energetics

J Harte - 2011‏ - books.google.com
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 …

Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing

CJ Carlson, CM Zipfel, R Garnier… - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019‏ - nature.com
Present estimates suggest there are over 1 million virus species found in mammals alone,
with about half a million posing a possible threat to human health. Although previous …

Maximum information entropy: a foundation for ecological theory

J Harte, EA Newman - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2014‏ - cell.com
The maximum information entropy (MaxEnt) principle is a successful method of statistical
inference that has recently been applied to ecology. Here, we show how MaxEnt can …