peer reviewedEcohydrological systems are a result of long-term co-evolution of soils, biota and atmospheric conditions, and often respond to perturbations in non-intuitive ways. Their short-term responses can be explained and sometimes predicted if we understand the underlying dynamic processes and if we can observe the initial state precisely enough. However, how do they co-evolve in the long-term after a change in the boundary conditions? In 1922, Alfred Lotka hypothesised that the natural selection governing the evolution of biota and composition of ecosystems may be obeying some thermodynamic principles related to maximising energy flow through these systems. Similar thoughts have been formulated for various components of the Earth syst...
The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate ...
The biosphere has greatly shaped the past evolution of the Earth system. Here I argue that life evol...
Applications of thermodynamic principles to ecology have a relatively long and varied history. These...
The water balance on land plays a critical role in connecting key hydrological processes with climat...
The present-day atmosphere is in a unique state far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This uniqueness ...
The Earth system is maintained in a unique state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, as, for instanc...
The Earth system is remarkably different from its planetary neighbours in that it shows pronounced, ...
Conventional thermodynamics and statistical mechanics deal with the study of physical systems under ...
The coupled biosphere-atmosphere system entails a vast range of processes at different scales, from ...
We derive an expression for the thermodynamic entropy production (EP) of both phototrophic and chemo...
The causal element of biological evolution and development can be understood in terms of a potential...
Thermodynamics sets fundamental laws for all physical processes and is central to driving and mainta...
AbstractThroughout Earth's history, life has increased greatly in abundance, complexity, and diversi...
Throughout Earth's history, life has increased greatly in abundance, complexity, and diversity. At t...
The First Principle of Thermodynamics is concerned with conservation, the Second Principle with evol...
The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate ...
The biosphere has greatly shaped the past evolution of the Earth system. Here I argue that life evol...
Applications of thermodynamic principles to ecology have a relatively long and varied history. These...
The water balance on land plays a critical role in connecting key hydrological processes with climat...
The present-day atmosphere is in a unique state far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This uniqueness ...
The Earth system is maintained in a unique state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, as, for instanc...
The Earth system is remarkably different from its planetary neighbours in that it shows pronounced, ...
Conventional thermodynamics and statistical mechanics deal with the study of physical systems under ...
The coupled biosphere-atmosphere system entails a vast range of processes at different scales, from ...
We derive an expression for the thermodynamic entropy production (EP) of both phototrophic and chemo...
The causal element of biological evolution and development can be understood in terms of a potential...
Thermodynamics sets fundamental laws for all physical processes and is central to driving and mainta...
AbstractThroughout Earth's history, life has increased greatly in abundance, complexity, and diversi...
Throughout Earth's history, life has increased greatly in abundance, complexity, and diversity. At t...
The First Principle of Thermodynamics is concerned with conservation, the Second Principle with evol...
The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate ...
The biosphere has greatly shaped the past evolution of the Earth system. Here I argue that life evol...
Applications of thermodynamic principles to ecology have a relatively long and varied history. These...