High configurational landscape heterogeneity due to small fields and a high amount of field boundaries is hypothesized to enhance farmland biodiversity.
These materials have been popularly known as high-entropy alloys (HEAs) due to their innate high configurational entropies associated with the mixing of large number of elements at their regular solid solution state.
Cross-case comparisons revealed that URCs featuring overall high configurational accessibility, shorter walking distances and intact territories exhibit higher face-to-face consultation rates, consultation network connectivity, and subjective/objective innovation process outcomes.
Generalist species were more abundant in landscapes with higher proportion of arable land and high configurational heterogeneity, which suggests resource supplementation could be the mechanism that improves their population level.
High configurational entropies have been hypothesized to stabilize solid solutions in equiatomic, multi-element alloys which have attracted much attention recently as "high-entropy" alloys with potentially interesting properties.
Thus, high configurational entropy provides a way to rationalize, after the fact, why a solid solution forms (if it forms), but it is not a useful a priori predictor of which of the so-called high-entropy alloys will form thermodynamically stable single-phase solid solutions.
