IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/ecomod/v222y2011i23p3917-3941.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does energy dissipation increase with ecosystem succession? Testing the ecosystem exergy theory combining theoretical simulations and thermal remote sensing observations

Author

Listed:
  • Maes, W.H.
  • Pashuysen, T.
  • Trabucco, A.
  • Veroustraete, F.
  • Muys, B.

Abstract

The ecosystem exergy theory is an ecosystem succession theory based on thermodynamics and hypothesizes that energy dissipation increases with ecosystem maturity. It was developed along with a number of specially designed dissipation indicators, derived from thermal remote sensing. The theory provides an interesting method for the rapid evaluation of the degree of naturalness and/or the maturity of an ecosystem, e.g. in land use impact assessment studies. However, lack of proof of the validity of the ecosystem exergy theory has limited its application. In addition, it remains unsolved whether the dissipation indicators are influenced by meteorological conditions, how they are related with each other and which dissipation indicator has the largest discriminative power.

Suggested Citation

  • Maes, W.H. & Pashuysen, T. & Trabucco, A. & Veroustraete, F. & Muys, B., 2011. "Does energy dissipation increase with ecosystem succession? Testing the ecosystem exergy theory combining theoretical simulations and thermal remote sensing observations," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(23), pages 3917-3941.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:222:y:2011:i:23:p:3917-3941
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.08.028
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380011004674
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.08.028?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Alta, D. & Ertekin, C. & Evrendilek, F., 2010. "Quantifying spatio-temporal dynamics of solar radiation exergy over Turkey," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(12), pages 2821-2828.
    2. Wagendorp, Tim & Gulinck, Hubert & Coppin, Pol & Muys, Bart, 2006. "Land use impact evaluation in life cycle assessment based on ecosystem thermodynamics," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 112-125.
    3. Lin, Hua & Cao, Min & Stoy, Paul C. & Zhang, Yiping, 2009. "Assessing self-organization of plant communities—A thermodynamic approach," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 220(6), pages 784-790.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Attorre, F. & Sciubba, E. & Vitale, M., 2019. "A thermodynamic model for plant growth, validated with Pinus sylvestris data," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 391(C), pages 53-62.
    2. Heba Alzaben & Roydon Fraser & Clarence Swanton, 2021. "The Role of Engineering Thermodynamics in Explaining the Inverse Correlation between Surface Temperature and Supplied Nitrogen Rate in Corn Plants: A Greenhouse Case Study," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-16, January.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hsing-Fu Kuo & Ko-Wan Tsou, 2017. "Modeling and Simulation of the Future Impacts of Urban Land Use Change on the Natural Environment by SLEUTH and Cluster Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-21, December.
    2. Miedziejko, Ewa M. & Kędziora, Andrzej, 2014. "Impact of plant canopy structure on the transport of ecosystem entropy," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 289(C), pages 15-25.
    3. Jiménez-Muñoz, Juan C. & Sobrino, José A. & Mattar, Cristian, 2012. "Recent trends in solar exergy and net radiation at global scale," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 228(C), pages 59-65.
    4. Buytaert, V. & Muys, B. & Devriendt, N. & Pelkmans, L. & Kretzschmar, J.G. & Samson, R., 2011. "Towards integrated sustainability assessment for energetic use of biomass: A state of the art evaluation of assessment tools," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 15(8), pages 3918-3933.
    5. Tedla, Abeje & Minale, Mesafint & Eshetu, Reta, 2020. "Determination of the Upper Limit Age of Jatropha Curcas Plantation for Optimum Yield Production," Asian Business Review, Asian Business Consortium, vol. 10(1), pages 37-42.
    6. Taelman, Sue Ellen & De Meester, Steven & Schaubroeck, Thomas & Sakshaug, Egil & Alvarenga, Rodrigo A.F. & Dewulf, Jo, 2014. "Accounting for the occupation of the marine environment as a natural resource in life cycle assessment: An exergy based approach," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 1-10.
    7. Amaya Martínez-Gracia & Sergio Usón & Mª Teresa Pintanel & Javier Uche & Ángel A. Bayod-Rújula & Alejandro Del Amo, 2021. "Exergy Assessment and Thermo-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Solar Systems with Seasonal Storage and Heat Pump Coupling in the Social Housing Sector in Zaragoza," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-32, February.
    8. Lin, Hua & Cao, Min & Zhang, Yiping, 2011. "Self-organization of tropical seasonal rain forest in southwest China," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(15), pages 2812-2816.
    9. Delgado-Bonal, Alfonso & Martín-Torres, F. Javier & Vázquez-Martín, Sandra & Zorzano, María-Paz, 2016. "Solar and wind exergy potentials for Mars," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 550-558.
    10. Song, Qinghai & Lin, Hua & Zhang, Yiping & Tan, Zhenghong & Zhao, Junfu & Zhao, Junbin & Zhang, Xiang & Zhou, Wenjun & Yu, Lei & Yang, Lianyan & Yu, Guirui & Sun, Xiaomin, 2013. "The effect of drought stress on self-organisation in a seasonal tropical rainforest," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 265(C), pages 136-139.
    11. Huysveld, Sophie & De Meester, Steven & Van linden, Veerle & Muylle, Hilde & Peiren, Nico & Lauwers, Ludwig & Dewulf, Jo, 2015. "Cumulative Overall Resource Efficiency Assessment (COREA) for comparing bio-based products with their fossil-derived counterparts," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 113-127.
    12. Tramberend, Sylvia & Fischer, Günther & Bruckner, Martin & van Velthuizen, Harrij, 2019. "Our Common Cropland: Quantifying Global Agricultural Land Use from a Consumption Perspective," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C), pages 332-341.
    13. dos Santos, Rodrigo G. & de Faria, Pedro R. & Santos, José J.C.S. & da Silva, Julio A.M. & Flórez-Orrego, Daniel, 2016. "Thermoeconomic modeling for CO2 allocation in steam and gas turbine cogeneration systems," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 117(P2), pages 590-603.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:222:y:2011:i:23:p:3917-3941. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-modelling .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.