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Life and the production of entropy

Published:1987-11-23 Issue:1267 Volume:232 Page:181-192
ISSN:0080-4649
Container-title:Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.

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Abstract

It appears that living communities serve to augment the rate of entropy production over what it would be in the absence of biota. This hypothesis might be tested by comparing the spectra of electromagnetic fluxes incident to and emanating from the surface of the Earth. An added measure of the value of stored energy to ecosystems is derived by using the economic theory of discounting.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.1987.0067

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