Bowler, M.G.; Kelly, C.K. Endemics and Cosmopolitans: Application of Statistical Mechanics to the Dry Forests of Mexico. Entropy2019, 21, 616.
Bowler, M.G.; Kelly, C.K. Endemics and Cosmopolitans: Application of Statistical Mechanics to the Dry Forests of Mexico. Entropy 2019, 21, 616.
Bowler, M.G.; Kelly, C.K. Endemics and Cosmopolitans: Application of Statistical Mechanics to the Dry Forests of Mexico. Entropy2019, 21, 616.
Bowler, M.G.; Kelly, C.K. Endemics and Cosmopolitans: Application of Statistical Mechanics to the Dry Forests of Mexico. Entropy 2019, 21, 616.
Abstract
Data on the seasonally dry tropical forests of Mexico have been examined in the light of statistical mechanics. The results suggest a division into two classes of species. There are drifting populations of a cosmopolitan class capable of existing in most dry forest sites; these have a statistical distribution previously only observed (globally) for populations of alien species. A high proportion of species found only at a single site are endemic and these prefer sites comparatively low in species richness.
Keywords
statistical mechanics; resource partitioning; distribution of species; seasonally dry tropical forest; biotic resistance
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biophysics
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