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Entropy Production in Ecosystems.
We present an extremely minimal ecosystem model which takes account of thermodynamic constraints on the organisms metabolism. This suggests a way to test the application of a hypothesised principle of Maximum Entropy Production to ecosystems. It also puts definite physical bounds on the rates at which matter can flow through the system and paves the way for more detailed models that have thermodynamic principles built in from the start. In providing the background for this model we point out some connections between thermodynamic principles and autopoiesis.
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Springer-VerlagPages
123.0Presentation Type
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Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007Event location
LisbonEvent type
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978-3-540-74912-7Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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