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Discerning the thermodynamic feasibility of the spontaneous coexistence of multiple functional vegetation groups

Can the Second Law of Thermodynamics explain why ecosystems naturally organize into a complex structure composed of multiple vegetation species and functional groups? Ecosystem structure, which refers to the number and type of plant functional groups, is the result of self-organization, or the spont...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Meredith, Kumar, Praveen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7591582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75050-4