Maximum Entropy and Ecology - A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics

Zusatztext All those new to research, regardless of discipline, would do well to read at least the first part of this book and there is plenty other material to help understand 'how to do research'. There is plenty for physicists to enjoy and think about at a casual level without the need to commit to finding out a huge amount about ecology. It was a pleasure to review this book. Informationen zum Autor John Harte is a Professor of Ecosystem Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Following undergraduate studies at Harvard and a doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CERN, Geneva and an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale. His research interests include climate-ecosystem interactions, theoretical ecology, and environmental policy. He is the recipient of a Pew Scholars Prize in Conservation and the Environment, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2001 Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, the 2004 UC Berkeley Graduate Mentorship Award, a Miller Professorship, and is a co-recipient of the 2006 George Polk award in journalism. He is an elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. He has also served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored over 190 scientific publications, including seven books. Klappentext Provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns. The theory developed predicts realistic forms for all metrics of ecology that describe patterns in the distribution, abundance, and energetics of species. Zusammenfassung Provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns. The theory developed predicts realistic forms for all metrics of ecology that describe patterns in the distribution, abundance, and energetics of species....

Product details

• Authors: John Harte
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199593415
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959341-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution; Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution; Oxford Ecology and Evolution
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Angewandte Mathematik, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, Applied ecology, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Biophysics, Mathematical modelling, Chemical biology, Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics, Thermochemistry and chemical thermodynamics