Original title: Plant transpiration, entropy production and gross primarily productivity
Authors: Šír, M. ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Lichner, Ľ.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Hydrologie malého povodí 2014, Praha (CZ), 2014-04-22 / 2014-04-24
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Abstract: The Earth is a self-organized system. The source of information for self-organization is the degradation of solar radiation. The solar energy is highly organized and carried by photons. Earth absorbs this energy and then releases it back to the Universe. However, energy released to the environment is in the form of electromagnetic radiation, which is on average at longer wavelengths than the absorbed photons. The flow of the entropy associated with the energy conversion, which is at disposal for the self-organization, is approximately equal to 1.16·10.sup.38./sup. bit·.sub.s./sub..sup.-1./sup. (Roland-Mieskowski, 1994). The nature of self-organization is a theme of contemporary scientific discussion. The core of this discussion is the role of biotic processes. Lovelock and Margulis (1974) formulated a theory that the self-organization in a global scale is an emergent characteristic of the Earth’s biota (Gaia theory).
Keywords: ecological optimality theory; Gaia theory; plant entropy production; plant temperature; plant transpiration
Project no.: GA205/08/1174 (CEP), TA02021451 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR, GA TA ČR
Host item entry: Hydrologie malého povodí 2014, ISBN 978-80-02-02525-2

Institution: Institute of Hydrodynamics AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available on demand via the digital repository of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0233438

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