Meanings
nounmaxent (uncountable)
- uncountablemathematicsmaximum entropy
Study results showed that maxent model can be highly robust (99.8%) in predicting the species relative abundance of macrophytes with observed community-weighted mean (CWM) traits as the constraints, while relative low (about 30%) with CWM traits fitted from water depth gradient as the constraints.
2015 July 14, “Predicting Changes in Macrophyte Community Structure from Functional Traits in a Freshwater Lake: A Test of Maximum Entropy Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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