Calculations of exergy for organisms

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 185, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 165-175

  Jørgensen, Sven Erik ^a   Ladegaard, Niels ^b   Debeljak, Marko ^c   Marques, Joao Carlos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Josef Stefan Institute ^*  (Denmark)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complexity; DNA; Evolution; Exergy; Genes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOMES; GENES; RNA;

CODING GENES; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; EXERGY ESTIMATIONS; ORGANISMS;

ECOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXERGY;

EUKARYOTA; MYA;

EID: 17644393178     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.11.020     Document Type: Article

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