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- Michiel Stock (UGent) , Laura Hoebeke and Bernard De Baets (UGent)
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- Shannon’s entropy measure is a popular means for quantifying ecological diversity. We explore how one can use information-theoretic measures (that are often called indices in ecology) on joint ensembles to study the diversity of species interaction networks. We leverage the little-known balance equation to decompose the network information into three components describing the species abundance, specificity, and redundancy. This balance reveals that there exists a fundamental trade-off between these components. The decomposition can be straightforwardly extended to analyse networks through time as well as space, leading to the corresponding notions for alpha, beta, and gamma diversity. Our work aims to provide an accessible introduction for ecologists. To this end, we illustrate the interpretation of the components on numerous real networks. The corresponding code is made available to the community in the specialised Julia package EcologicalNetworks.jl.
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- General Physics and Astronomy, information theory, species interaction networks, diversity, effective numbers, DIVERSITY, STRENGTH, ENTROPY, ECOLOGY
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8710871
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- Stock, Michiel, et al. “Disentangling the Information in Species Interaction Networks.” ENTROPY, vol. 23, no. 6, 2021, doi:10.3390/e23060703.
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- Stock, M., Hoebeke, L., & De Baets, B. (2021). Disentangling the information in species interaction networks. ENTROPY, 23(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060703
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- Stock, Michiel, Laura Hoebeke, and Bernard De Baets. 2021. “Disentangling the Information in Species Interaction Networks.” ENTROPY 23 (6). https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060703.
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- Stock, Michiel, Laura Hoebeke, and Bernard De Baets. 2021. “Disentangling the Information in Species Interaction Networks.” ENTROPY 23 (6). doi:10.3390/e23060703.
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- 1.Stock M, Hoebeke L, De Baets B. Disentangling the information in species interaction networks. ENTROPY. 2021;23(6).
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- [1]M. Stock, L. Hoebeke, and B. De Baets, “Disentangling the information in species interaction networks,” ENTROPY, vol. 23, no. 6, 2021.
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