Exergy

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1498-1509

  Jorgensen S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eco exergy; Ecosystem health; Entropy; Exergy; Free energy; Heat; Kullback s measure of information; Maximum eco exergy hypothesis; Oxidation processes; Pollution; Turnover rate of nutrients; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649139570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00689-3     Document Type: Chapter

References (10)

1. B. Fath, S.E. Jørgensen, B.C. Patten and M. Strakraba (2004) Ecosystem growth and development. BioSystem 77 213-228.
2. S.E. Jørgensen (2002) Integration of Ecosystem Theories: A Pattern. 3rd edn. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishing Company 432pp.(1st edn. 1992, 2nd edn. 1997)
3. S.E. Jørgensen and B. Fath (2004) Application of thermodynamic principles in ecology. Ecological Complexity 1 267-280.
4. S.E. Jørgensen and Y.M. Svirezhev (2004) Towards a Thermodynamic Theory for Ecological Systems. Oxford: Elsevier 366pp
5. S.E. Jørgensen, B.C. Patten and M. Strakraba (2000) Ecosystems Emerging: 4. Growth. Ecological Modelling 126 249-284.
6. S.E. Jørgensen, N. Ladegaard, M. Debeljak and J.C. Marques (2005) Calculations of exergy for organisms. Ecological Modelling 185 165-176.
7. H.J. Morowitz (1968) Energy Flow in Biology. Biological Organisation as a Problem in Thermal Physics. New York: Academic Press 179pp.(See also the review by Odum HT (1969) Science 164: 683–84)
8. E. Schrødinger (1944) What is Life? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
9. Y.M. Svirezhev (2001) Thermodynanics and theory of stability. S.E. Jørgensen (Ed.) Thermodynamics and Ecological Modelling Boco Raton, FL: CRC Press, LLC 117-132.
10. R.E. Ulanowicz (1986) Growth and Development. Ecosystems Phenomenology. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tokyo: Springer 204pp