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Trends in entropy production during ecosystem development in the Amazon Basin.
Paper summary
Estimates ecosystem entropy production from flux and meteorological data at Amazon forest and pasture sites. The comparison finds higher rates in forest and discusses whether this relates to ecosystem development and maximum-production hypotheses.
Relevance to the project
A quantitative environment-boundary example for thermodynamic comparisons. Pair with counterexamples to stronger maximum-entropy claims and distinguish observed trends from universal laws.
Cross-site differences and accounting assumptions limit causal interpretation.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1098-rstb-2009-0298
- Archived version
- Publisher/repository PDF linked by Europe PMC; see source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1098-rstb-2009-0298/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.