Thermodynamics and Ecological Modelling 1st Edition by Sven Jorgensen 0367825945 9780367825942
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ISBN 10: 0367825945
ISBN 13: 9780367825942
Author: Sven E. Jorgensen
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.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Exosomatic Structures and Captive Energies Relevant in Succession and Evolution
Chapter 3 How Light and Nutrients Affect Life in a Closed Bottle
Chapter 4 Emergy Accounting of Human-Dominated, Large-Scale Ecosystems
Chapter 5 Thermodynamics and Theory of Stability
Chapter 6 Application of Thermodynamic Concepts to Real Ecosystems: Anthropogenic Impact and Agriculture
Chapter 7 The Thermodynamic Concept: Exergy
Chapter 8 Entropy and Exergy Principles in Living Systems
Chapter 9 Exergy and the Emergence of Multidimensional System Orientation
Chapter 10 Thermodynamics and Ecology: Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium
Chapter 11 Imperfect Symmetry: Action Principles in Ecology and Evolution
Chapter 12 The Third Law of Thermodynamics Applied in Ecosystem Theory
Chapter 13 A Tentative Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 14 Thermodynamics of the Biosphere
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