The identification of a universal law that can predict the spatiotemporal structure of any entity
at any scale has long been pursued. Thermodynamics have targeted this goal, and the …

This review describes the basic principles of electrophysiology using the generation of an
action potential in characean internodal cells as a pedagogical tool. Electrophysiology has …

Information theory and entropy measures have been extensively applied in ecology in
different areas like biodiversity assessment, evolution, species interactions, spatial dynamics …

Data from a hilly forest study site at Batang Ule, Sumatra, are organized into 30 100-m× 10-
m subplots lying perpendicular to the line of maximal topographic gradient, from the valley to …

Entropy-related biodiversity indices deriving their conceptual basis from Shannon's
information theory have a long history of use in ecology for quantifying community structure …

Most ecological diversity indices summarize the information about the relative abundances
of community species without reflecting taxonomic differences between species …

Vegetation in natural desert and agro-ecosystems was investigated in the middle sector of
Egypt. The vegetation was classified by the Two Way Indicator Species Analysis technique …

Knowing the global pattern of species diversity is a central goal of the science of ecology,
and scaling laws can be useful for analysis of cross‐scale biodiversity patterns. An …

The paper responds to the question: How should one go about designing the statistical
analysis of biodiversity if it had to be done across scales in time and space? The conceptual …

In the past 20 years, several metrics have been developed to quantify various aspects of
landscape structure and diversity in space and time, and most have been tested on grid …