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Thermodynamics and Ecological Modelling (Paperback)
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Thermodynamics and Ecological Modelling (Paperback)
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Thermodynamics is used increasingly in ecology to understand the
system properties of ecosystems because it is a basic science that
describes energy transformation from a holistic view. In the last
decade, many contributions to ecosystem theory based on
thermodynamics have been published, therefore an important step
toward integrating these theories and encouraging a more wide
spread use of them is to present them in one volume. An ecosystem
consists of interdependent living organisms that are also
interdependent with their environment, all of which are involved in
a constant transfer of energy and mass within a general state of
equilibrium or dis-equilibrium. Thermodynamics can quantify exactly
how "organized" or "disorganized" a system is - an extremely useful
to know when trying to understand how a dynamic ecosystem is
behaving. A part of the Environmental and Ecological (Math)
Modeling series, Thermodynamics and Ecology is a book-length study
- the first of its kind - of the current thinking on how an
ecosystem can be explained and predicted in terms of its
thermodynamical behavior. After the introductory chapters on the
fundamentals of thermodynamics, the book explains how thermodynamic
theory can be specifically applied to the "measurement" of an
ecosystem, including the assessment of its state of entropy and
enthalpy. Additionally, it will show economists how to put these
theories to use when trying to quantify the movement of goods and
services through another type of complex living system - a human
society.
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