Exergy as a Tool for Ecosystem Health Assessment

Exergy is demonstrated to be a useful measurable parameter reflecting the state of the ecosystem, and allowing estimation of the severity of its anthropogenous damage. Exergy is shown to have advantages such as good theoretical basis in thermodynamics, close relation to information theory, rather hi...

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Main Authors: Eugene A. Silow, Andrew V. Mokry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/4/902/