Networks on networks : the physics of geobiology and geochemistry /

Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrived at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how mu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hunt, Allen G. (Allen Gerhard) (Autor), Manzoni, Stefano (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Geobiology.
Geochemistry.
SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics.
Geophysics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • 1. The physics of geobiology and geochemistry
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Fundamental scaling relationships : advection versus diffusion
  • 1.3. Summary
  • 2. Percolation theory, the effective-medium approximation and upscaling
  • 2.1. Introduction and background
  • 2.2. Percolation theory and scaling properties
  • 2.3. Critical path analysis
  • 2.4. The effective-medium approximation
  • 3. Physical, hydraulic and conduction properties in porous media using percolation theory
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Media models
  • 3.3. Saturated hydraulic conductivity
  • 3.4. Saturation-dependent properties
  • 4. Solute transport in soils and other heterogeneous porous media
  • 4.1. Percolation theory of solute transport
  • 4.2. Dispersivity
  • 4.3. Solute arrival time distributions
  • 4.4. Reaction-rate scaling
  • 4.5. Summary
  • 5. Water transport in plants
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Pore scale
  • 5.3. Tissue scale
  • 5.4. Ecological implications of the safety-efficiency trade-off
  • 5.5. Plant scale
  • 6. Allometric scaling and metabolism
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. A general model for scaling of metabolic rate
  • 6.3. Plant allometry emerging from fractal branching network
  • 6.4. The problem of conduit furcation
  • 6.5. Scaling of above-ground and below-ground characteristic sizes
  • 6.6. Scaling of size and age
  • 6.7. Ecosystem scale
  • 7. Edaphic constraints : the role of the soil in vegetation growth
  • 7.1. Introduction and motivation
  • 7.2. Fundamental results
  • 7.3. Soil data
  • 7.4. Vascular plant data
  • 7.5. Generalizations and implications
  • 7.6. Concluding remarks
  • 8. Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis.

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