A continuum of information-based temporal stability measures and their decomposition across hierarchical levels
Anne Chao, Robert K. Colwell, Johnny Shia, Simon Thorn, Ming-Yun Yang, Oliver Mitesser, Yuting Huang, Mareike Kortmann, Akira S. Mori, Benjamin M. Delory, Andreas Fichtner, Yuanyuan Huang, Christiane Roscher, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer, Jörg C. Müller
The paper introduces a continuum of information-based temporal stability measures parameterized by q, applicable to ecological time series data, and demonstrates their use with biomass data from the Jena Experiment.
bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2025 · PreprintEcology