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Assessing sustainability in North America’s ecosystems using criticality and information theory

2018-05-25

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Sustainability is a key concept in economic and policy debates. Nevertheless, it is usually treated only in a qualitative way and has eluded quantitative analysis. Here, we propose a sustainability index based on the premise that sustainable systems do not lose or gain Fisher Information over time. We test this approach using time series data from the AmeriFlux network that measures ecosystem respiration, water an...

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Literature Corpus work: 4ed10252-461d-5b7c-ba40-1d4b582e3c80
DOI: 10.1101/330415

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