The Maximum Entropy Formalism of statistical mechanics in a biological application: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

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

doi:10.1101/2021.03.31.437717

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The Maximum Entropy Formalism of statistical mechanics in a biological application: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

Edwin Pos, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina Castilho, Oliver Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, …

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.31.437717

Abstract

Maximum entropy

Information theory

Biodiversity

Amazon rainforest

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 almost ten times more of local relative abundances then constraints based on either directional or stabilizing 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.

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Title: The Maximum Entropy Formalism of statistical mechanics in a biological application: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology
Creators - without role: Edwin Pos - Utrecht University
Luiz de Souza Coelho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Rafael Salomão - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Iêda Leão Amaral - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Carolina Castilho - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Juan Ernesto Guevara - Universidad de Las Américas
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Dairon Cárdenas López
William Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Florian Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mariana Victória Irume - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Maria Pires Martins - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Daniel Sabatier - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
José Renan da Silva Guimarães - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Jean-François Molino - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Olaf Bánki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Nigel C.A. Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
José Ferreira Ramos
Joseph Hawes - Anglia Ruskin University
Everton José Almeida - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Luciane Ferreira Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Larissa Cavalheiro - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Bruno Garcia Luize
Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo - National Institute for Space Research
Percy Núñez Vargas - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva - University of Stirling
Eduardo Martins Venticinque - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Neidiane Farias Costa Reis
John Terborgh - University of Florida
Katia Regina Casula - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Euridice Coronado
Juan Carlos Montero - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Beatriz Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Ted Feldpausch - University of Leeds
Alvaro Duque - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Christopher Baraloto - Florida International University
Nicolás Castaño Arboleda
Julien Engel - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Pascal Petronelli - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Charles Eugene Zartman - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Timothy Killeen - Universidad Nacional del Oriente
Rodolfo Vasquez
Bonifacio Mostacedo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Rafael Assis - University of Oslo
Jochen Schöngart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hernán Castellanos - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Ana Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
José Luís Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Layon Demarchi - National Institute of Amazonian Research
William Laurance - James Cook University
Susan G.W. Laurance - James Cook University
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Maria Aparecida Lopes - Universidade Federal do Pará
José Leonardo Lima Magalhães - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Helder Lima de Queiroz - Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá
Gerardo Aymard C.
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Juan David Cardenas Revilla - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Flávia R.C. Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Adriano Quaresma - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra - Universidade de São Paulo
Pablo Stevenson - Universidad de Los Andes
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Joost Duivenvoorden - University of Amsterdam
Hugo Mogollón
Leandro Valle Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
James Comiskey - National Park Service
Freddie Draper - Carnegie Institution for Science
José Julio de Toledo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Gabriel Damasco - University of California, Berkeley
Nállarett Dávila - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Roosevelt García-Villacorta - Cornell University
Aline Lopes - Universidade de Brasília
Alberto Vicentini - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Janaína Costa Noronha - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Thaise Emilio - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Carolina Levis - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Juliana Schietti - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Priscila Souza - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Alfonso Alonso - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Francisco Dallmeier - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Vitor H.F. Gomes - Universidade Federal do Pará
Jon Lloyd - Imperial College London
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Fernanda Coelho de Souza - University of Leeds
Dário Dantas Do Amaral
Kenneth Feeley - University of Miami
Rogerio Gribel - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marcelo Petratti Pansonato - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jos Barlow - Lancaster University
Erika Berenguer - University of Oxford
Joice Ferreira - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Paul V.A. Fine - University of California, Berkeley
Marcelino Carneiro Guedes - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Eliana Jimenez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Juan Carlos Licona - Bolivian Forest Research Institute
Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora
Carlos Peres - University of East Anglia
Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra
Carlos Cerón - Central University of Ecuador
Terry Henkel - Humboldt State University
Paul Maas - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
Juliana Stropp - Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Raquel Thomas-Caesar - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Tim Baker
Doug Daly - New York Botanical Garden
Kyle Dexter - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
John Ethan Householder - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Toby Pennington
Marcos Ríos Paredes
Alfredo Fuentes - Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia
José Luis Marcelo Pena - National University of Cajamarca
Miles Silman - Wake Forest University
J. Sebastián Tello - Missouri Botanical Garden
Jérôme Chave - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fernando Cornejo Valverde - Amazon National University of Madre de Dios
Anthony Di Fiore - The University of Texas at Austin
Renato Richard Hilário - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Juan Fernando Phillips
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres - University of Florida
Tinde van Andel - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Patricio von Hildebrand
Edelcilio Marques Barbosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza
Émile Fonty - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Ricardo Zárate Gómez - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Therany Gonzales
George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales
Jean-Louis Guillaumet
Bruce Hoffman - Multi Electrical System
André Braga Junqueira - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto
Adriana Prieto - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Agustín Rudas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ademir Ruschel - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Natalino Silva - Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia
César I.A. Vela - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Vincent Antoine Vos - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Egleé Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Stanford Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Bianca Weiss Albuquerque - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Angela Cano - Universidad de Los Andes
Diego Correa - ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Bernardo Monteiro Flores - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Milena Holmgren - Wageningen University & Research
Marcelo Trindade Nascimento - State University of Norte Fluminense
Alexandre Oliveira - Universidade de São Paulo
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo - University of the Andes
Maira Rocha - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller - Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Rodrigo Sierra
Milton Tirado
Maria Natalia Umaña - University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Geertje van Der Heijden - University of Nottingham
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Corine Vriesendorp - Field Museum of Natural History
Ophelia Wang - Northern Arizona University
Kenneth Young - The University of Texas at Austin
Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui
Cláudia Baider - Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute
Henrik Balslev - Aarhus University
Sasha Cárdenas - Universidad de Los Andes
Luisa Fernanda Casas - Universidad de Los Andes
William Farfan-Rios - Missouri Botanical Garden
Cid Ferreira - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Casimiro Mendoza - University of San Simón
Italo Mesones - University of California, Berkeley
Armando Torres-Lezama - University of the Andes
Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Daniel Villarroel - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Roderick Zagt
Miguel Alexiades - University of Kent
Karina Garcia-Cabrera - Wake Forest University
Lionel Hernandez - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
William Milliken - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Walter Palacios Cuenca - Universidad Técnica del Norte
Susamar Pansini - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Daniela Pauletto - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Adeilza Felipe Sampaio - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Elvis Valderrama Sandoval
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra
Gerhard Boenisch - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jens Kattge - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Nathan Kraft
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Karina Melgaço - University of Leeds
Georgia Pickavance - University of Leeds
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Identifiers: 9939255109311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Preprint
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