Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.
Creators: name: Pos, Edwin
name: De Souza Coelho, Luiz
name: De Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes
name: Salomão, Rafael P
name: Amaral, Iêda Leão
name: De Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia
name: Castilho, Carolina V
name: Phillips, Oliver L
name: Guevara, Juan Ernesto
name: De Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo
name: López, Dairon Cárdenas
name: Magnusson, William E
name: Wittmann, Florian
name: Irume, Mariana Victória
name: Martins, Maria Pires
name: Sabatier, Daniel
name: Da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
name: Molino, Jean-François
name: Bánki, Olaf S
name: Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
name: Pitman, Nigel CA
name: Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo
name: Ramos, José Ferreira
name: Hawes, Joseph E
name: Almeida, Everton José
name: Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira
name: Cavalheiro, Larissa
name: Dos Santos, Márcia Cléia Vilela
name: Luize, Bruno Garcia
name: De Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes
name: Vargas, Percy Núñez
name: Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire
name: Venticinque, Eduardo Martins
name: Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
name: Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
name: Terborgh, John
name: Casula, Katia Regina
name: Coronado, Euridice N Honorio
name: Montero, Juan Carlos
name: Marimon, Beatriz S
name: Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
name: Feldpausch, Ted R
name: Duque, Alvaro
name: Baraloto, Chris
name: Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño
name: Engel, Julien
name: Petronelli, Pascal
name: Zartman, Charles Eugene
name: Killeen, Timothy J
name: Vasquez, Rodolfo
name: Mostacedo, Bonifacio
name: Assis, Rafael L
name: Schöngart, Jochen
name: Castellanos, Hernán
name: De Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante
name: Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
name: Andrade, Ana
name: Camargo, José Luís
name: Demarchi, Layon O
name: Laurance, William F
name: Laurance, Susan GW
name: De Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
name: Lopes, Maria Aparecida
name: Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima
name: Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
name: De Queiroz, Helder Lima
name: Aymard, Gerardo AC
name: Brienen, Roel
name: Revilla, Juan David Cardenas
name: Costa, Flávia RC
name: Quaresma, Adriano
name: Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
name: Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat
name: Stevenson, Pablo R
name: Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira
name: Duivenvoorden, Joost F
name: Mogollón, Hugo F
name: Ferreira, Leandro Valle
name: Comiskey, James A
name: Draper, Freddie
name: De Toledo, José Julio
name: Damasco, Gabriel
name: Dávila, Nállarett
name: García-Villacorta, Roosevelt
name: Lopes, Aline
name: Vicentini, Alberto
name: Noronha, Janaína Costa
name: Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues
name: De Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen
name: Emilio, Thaise
name: Levis, Carolina
name: De Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos
name: Schietti, Juliana
name: Souza, Priscila
name: Alonso, Alfonso
name: Dallmeier, Francisco
name: Gomes, Vitor HF
name: Lloyd, Jon
name: Neill, David
name: De Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela
name: Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
name: Arroyo, Luzmila
name: Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
name: De Souza, Fernanda Coelho
name: Do Amaral, Dário Dantas
name: Feeley, Kenneth J
name: Gribel, Rogerio
name: Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti
name: Barlow, Jos
name: Berenguer, Erika
name: Ferreira, Joice
name: Fine, Paul VA
name: Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro
name: Jimenez, Eliana M
name: Licona, Juan Carlos
name: Mora, Maria Cristina Peñuela
name: Peres, Carlos A
name: Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa
name: Cerón, Carlos
name: Henkel, Terry W
name: Maas, Paul
name: Silveira, Marcos
name: Stropp, Juliana
name: Thomas-Caesar, Raquel
name: Baker, Tim R
name: Daly, Doug
name: Dexter, Kyle G
name: Householder, John Ethan
name: Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
name: Pennington, Toby
name: Paredes, Marcos Ríos
name: Fuentes, Alfredo
name: Pena, José Luis Marcelo
name: Silman, Miles R
name: Tello, J Sebastián
name: Chave, Jerome
name: Valverde, Fernando Cornejo
name: Di Fiore, Anthony
name: Hilário, Renato Richard
name: Phillips, Juan Fernando
name: Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
name: Van Andel, Tinde R
name: Von Hildebrand, Patricio
name: Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques
name: De Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos
name: Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila
name: Fonty, Émile
name: Gómez, Ricardo Zárate
name: Gonzales, Therany
name: Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo
name: Guillaumet, Jean-Louis
name: Hoffman, Bruce
name: Junqueira, André Braga
name: Malhi, Yadvinder
name: De Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula
name: Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite
name: Prieto, Adriana
name: Rudas, Agustín
name: Ruschel, Ademir R
name: Silva, Natalino
name: Vela, César IA
name: Vos, Vincent Antoine
name: Zent, Egleé L
name: Zent, Stanford
name: Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss
name: Cano, Angela
name: Correa, Diego F
name: Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa
name: Flores, Bernardo Monteiro
name: Holmgren, Milena
name: Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade
name: Oliveira, Alexandre A
name: Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma
name: Rocha, Maira
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Sierra, Rodrigo
name: Tirado, Milton
name: Umaña, Maria Natalia
name: Van Der Heijden, Geertje
name: Torre, Emilio Vilanova
name: Vriesendorp, Corine
name: Wang, Ophelia
name: Young, Kenneth R
name: Reategui, Manuel Augusto Ahuite
name: Baider, Cláudia
name: Balslev, Henrik
name: Cárdenas, Sasha
name: Casas, Luisa Fernanda
name: Farfan-Rios, William
name: Ferreira, Cid
name: Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
name: Mendoza, Casimiro
name: Mesones, Italo
name: Torres-Lezama, Armando
name: Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego
name: Villarroel, Daniel
name: Zagt, Roderick
name: Alexiades, Miguel N
name: Garcia-Cabrera, Karina
name: Hernandez, Lionel
name: Milliken, William
name: Cuenca, Walter Palacios
name: Pansini, Susamar
name: Pauletto, Daniela
name: Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez
name: Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
name: Sandoval, Elvis H Valderrama
name: Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
name: Boenisch, Gerhard
name: Kattge, Jens
name: Kraft, Nathan
name: Levesley, Aurora
name: Melgaço, Karina
name: Pickavance, Georgia
name: Poorter, Lourens
name: Ter Steege, Hans
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecosystem
subject: Entropy
subject: Biodiversity
subject: Forests
subject: Plants
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Tropical Climate

description: In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provides a framework for the understanding of such complex systems dynamics by a quantitative analysis of important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares of Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits, representing major global axes of plant strategies. Results show that constraints formed by regional relative abundances of genera explain eight times more of local relative abundances than constraints based on directional selection for specific functional traits, although the latter does show clear signals of environmental dependency. These results provide a quantitative insight by inference from large-scale data using cross-disciplinary methods, furthering our understanding of ecological dynamics.