Bowler Michael G, Kelly Colleen K
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK.
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
Entropy (Basel). 2019 Jun 22;21(6):616. doi: 10.3390/e21060616.
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. We infer that a high proportion of species found only at a single site are specialists, endemics, and that these prefer sites comparatively low in species richness.
基于统计力学对墨西哥季节性干旱热带森林的数据进行了研究。结果表明可将物种分为两类。一类是世界性的、能在大多数干旱森林地区生存的漂移种群；这些种群具有一种此前（在全球范围内）仅在外来物种种群中观察到的统计分布。我们推断，仅在单一地点发现的物种中，很大一部分是 specialists、特有种，并且这些物种更喜欢物种丰富度相对较低的地点。 （注：原文中“specialists”未明确给出准确中文释义，暂保留英文）
