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Author(s): S.E. Jorgensen, Y.M. Svirezhev
ISBN(s): 9780080441665, 0080441661
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.25 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0080441661

ISBN 13: 9780080441665

Author: Sven Erik Jorgensen, Yuri M. Svirezhev

The book presents a consistent and complete ecosystem theory based on thermodynamic concepts. The first chapters are devoted to an interpretation of the first and second law of thermodynamics in ecosystem context. Then Prigogine’s use of far from equilibrium thermodynamic is used on ecosystems to explain their reactions to perturbations. The introduction of the concept exergy makes it possible to give a more profound and comprehensive explanation of the ecosystem’s reactions and growth-patterns. A tentative fourth law of thermodynamic is formulated and applied to facilitate these explanations. The trophic chain, the global energy and radiation balance and pattern and the reactions of ecological networks are all explained by the use of exergy. Finally, it is discussed how the presented theory can be applied more widely to explain ecological observations and rules, to assess ecosystem health and to develop ecological models.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Thermodynamics as a method: A problem of statistical description

Chapter 2: The laws of classical thermodynamics and their application to ecology

Chapter 3: Second and third law of thermodynamics in open systems

Chapter 4: Entropy, probability and information

Chapter 5: Work, exergy and information

Chapter 6: Stability in mathematics, thermodynamics and ecology

Chapter 7: Models of ecosystems: Thermodynamic basis and methods. I. Trophic chains

Chapter 8: Models of ecosystems: Thermodynamics basis and methods. II. Competition and trophic level

Chapter 9: Thermodynamics of ecological networks

Chapter 10: Thermodynamics of vegetation

Chapter 11: Thermodynamics of the biosphere

Chapter 12: Teleology and extreme principles. A tentative fourth law of thermodynamics

Chapter 13: Application of exergy as ecological indicator and goal function in ecological modelling

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