Is the thermodynamic efficiency of soil microbial communities related to ecosystem maturity and stress?
According to the second law of thermodynamics, no process can be 100% efficient and all processes must increase the total entropy of the system they occupy. Therefore, living systems require a constant influx of low-entropy energy to survive, giving an evolutionary advantage to those that produce le...
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Cranfield University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650136 |