Towards a Thermodynamic Theory for Ecological Systems
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780080441665
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Nature; Environmental Science; Science; Nature/Ecology; Thermodynamics; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science / Environmental Science; Ecology; Mechanics - Dynamics - Thermodynamics; Biotic communities
First sentence: In the beginning, thermodynamics was an experimental science, and it was only after the work of Gibbs and Boltzmann that an understanding of the statistical basement of all thermodynamics relations appeared.