Ecosystem flow networks: Loaded dice?

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(91)90090-6zbMath0714.92023OpenAlexW1976868629WikidataQ52457149 ScholiaQ52457149MaRDI QIDQ751563

Wilfried F. Wolff, Robert E. Ulanowicz

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(91)90090-6

zbMATH Keywords

autocatalysisPareto distributionsindirect mutualismCauchy distributionsdistribution of ecosystem flow magnitudesecological flow networksinformation-theoretic comparison of the topologies of observed ecosystem transfers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Circuits, networks (94C99) Ecology (92D40) Communication, information (94A99) Information theory (general) (94A15)

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