Ecological pyramid of dissipation function and entropy production in aquatic ecosystems

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 104-108

  Aoki, Ichiro ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Delaware Bay; Dissipation function; Entropy production; Narragansett Bay; Respiration; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646813674     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2005.07.003     Document Type: Review

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