TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on "From plant traits to plant communities
T2 - a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity".
AU - Marks, Christian O.
AU - Muller-Landau, Helene C.
PY - 2007/6/8
Y1 - 2007/6/8
N2 - Shipley et al. (Reports, 3 November 2006, p. 812) predicted plant community composition and relative abundances with a high level of accuracy by maximizing Shannon's index of information entropy (species diversity), subject to constraints on plant trait averages. We show that the entropy maximization assumption is relatively unimportant and that the high accuracy is due largely to a statistical effect.
AB - Shipley et al. (Reports, 3 November 2006, p. 812) predicted plant community composition and relative abundances with a high level of accuracy by maximizing Shannon's index of information entropy (species diversity), subject to constraints on plant trait averages. We show that the entropy maximization assumption is relatively unimportant and that the high accuracy is due largely to a statistical effect.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34250665752&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/science.1140190
DO - 10.1126/science.1140190
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 316
SP - 1425; author reply 1425
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5830
ER -