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April 19, 2017

The Diversity of a Metacommunity

Posted by Tom Leinster

The eleventh and final installment of the functional equations course can be described in two ways:

  • From one perspective, I talked about conditional entropy, mutual information, and a very appealing analogy between these concepts and the most basic primary-school Venn diagrams.

  • From another, it was about diversity across a metacommunity, that is, an ecological community divided into smaller communities (e.g. geographical sites).

The notes begin on page 44 here.

Venn diagram showing various entropy measures for a pair of random variables

Posted at April 19, 2017 4:59 PM UTC

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