Comment on "From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity".

Christian O. Marks; Helene C. Muller-Landau

doi:10.1126/science.1140190

Comment on "From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity".

Christian O. Marks^*
, Helene C. Muller-Landau

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1425; author reply 1425
Journal	Science
Volume	316
Issue number	5830
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1140190
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Comment on "From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity".

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