Roots of diversity relations.

Journal of Biophysics
Peter Würtz, Arto Annila

Abstract

The species-area relationship is one of the central generalizations in ecology; however, its origin has remained a puzzle. Since ecosystems are understood as energy transduction systems, the regularities in species richness are considered to result from ubiquitous imperatives in energy transduction. From a thermodynamic point of view, organisms are transduction mechanisms that distribute an influx of energy down along the steepest gradients to the ecosystem's diverse repositories of chemical energy, that is, populations of species. Transduction machineries, that is, ecosystems assembled from numerous species, may emerge and evolve toward high efficiency on large areas that hold more matter than small ones. This results in the well-known logistic-like relationship between the area and the number of species. The species-area relationship is understood, in terms of thermodynamics, to be the skewed cumulative curve of chemical energy distribution that is commonly known as the species-abundance relationship.

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Apr 22, 2014·Theory in Biosciences = Theorie in Den Biowissenschaften·Youhua Chen
Oct 16, 2012·Bio Systems·Arto Annila, Erkki Annila
Jan 26, 2010·Bio Systems·Peter Würtz, Arto Annila
Nov 29, 2008·Bio Systems·Arto Annila, Esa Kuismanen
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