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Eric D. Schneider
Researcher at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publications - 5
Citations - 1394
Eric D. Schneider is an academic researcher from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systems ecology & Second law of thermodynamics. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1322 citations.
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Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics
Eric D. Schneider,James J. Kay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the second law of thermodynamics has been extended to nonequilibrium regions, where the evolution of a system is described in terms of gradients maintaining the system at some distance away from equilibrium.
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Complexity and thermodynamics: Towards a new ecology
Eric D. Schneider,James J. Kay +1 more
TL;DR: A thermodynamic paradigm for the development of ecosystems is proposed, suggested that as ecosystems grow and develop, they should increase their total dissipation by developing structures and processes to assist energy degradation.
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Embracing Complexity the Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach
James J. Kay,Eric D. Schneider +1 more
TL;DR: The response has been one of frustration as mentioned in this paper, with the main, simple, basic, universal laws which will allow quantitative prediction of ecosystem behaviour and what are the resulting rules for ecosystem management.
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What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology
Eric D. Schneider,James J. Kay +1 more
TL;DR: The phenomenology of many natural systems shows that much of the world is inhabited by nonequilibrium coherent structures, such as convection cells, autocatalytic chemical reactions and life itself, which exhibit a march away from disorder and equilibrium, into highly organized structures that exist some distance from equilibrium.
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Thermodynamics and Measures of Ecological Integrity
James J. Kay,Eric D. Schneider +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have studied the organization of ecosystems using complex systems theory, and in particular non-equilibrium thermodynamics, leading to a set of hypotheses concerning the organizational development of ecosystems.