Roach Ty N F
Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Kāne'ohe, HI 96744, USA.
Entropy (Basel). 2020 Nov 25;22(12):1335. doi: 10.3390/e22121335.
Here, I discuss entropy and its use as a tool in fields of biology such as bioenergetics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Statistical entropy concepts including Shannon's diversity, configurational entropy, and informational entropy are discussed in connection to their use in describing the diversity, heterogeneity, and spatial patterning of biological systems. The use of entropy as a measure of biological complexity is also discussed, and I explore the extension of thermodynamic entropy principles to open, nonequilibrium systems operating in finite time. I conclude with suggestions for use of caliber, a metric similar to entropy but for time-dependent trajectories rather than static distributions, and propose the complementary notion of path information.
在此，我将探讨熵及其作为一种工具在生物能量学、生态学和进化生物学等生物学领域中的应用。我们将讨论包括香农多样性、构型熵和信息熵在内的统计熵概念，以及它们在描述生物系统的多样性、异质性和空间格局方面的应用。还将讨论使用熵作为衡量生物复杂性的方法，并且我将探讨热力学熵原理在有限时间内运行的开放、非平衡系统中的扩展。最后，我给出了关于使用口径的建议，口径是一种类似于熵但用于随时间变化的轨迹而非静态分布的度量，并提出了路径信息的互补概念。
