Thermodynamics and Ecological Modelling Contributor(s): Jorgensen, Sven E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566702720 ISBN-13: 9781566702720 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: 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 will then explain 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Nature | Ecology - Science | Mechanics - Thermodynamics |
Dewey: 577 |
LCCN: 00039127 |
Series: Environmental & Ecological (Math) Modeling |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 7.27" W x 10.25" (1.82 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |