0428010 - ÚH 2015 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Šír, M. - Tesař, Miroslav - Lichner, Ľ.
Plant transpiration, entropy production and gross primarily productivity.
Hydrologie malého povodí 2014. Praha: Ústav pro hydrodynamiku, 2014 - (Brych, K.; Tesař, M.), s. 488-497. ISBN 978-80-02-02525-2.
[Hydrologie malého povodí 2014. Praha (CZ), 22.04.2014-24.04.2014]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA205/08/1174; GA TA ČR TA02021451
Institutional support: RVO:67985874
Keywords : plant transpiration * plant temperature * plant entropy production * Gaia theory * ecological optimality theory
Subject RIV: DA - Hydrology ; Limnology

The Earth is a self-organized system. The source of information for self-organization is the degradation of solar radiation. The solar energy is highly organized and carried by photons. Earth absorbs this energy and then releases it back to the Universe. However, energy released to the environment is in the form of electromagnetic radiation, which is on average at longer wavelengths than the absorbed photons. The flow of the entropy associated with the energy conversion, which is at disposal for the self-organization, is approximately equal to 1.16·10³⁸ bit·_s^-1 (Roland-Mieskowski, 1994). The nature of self-organization is a theme of contemporary scientific discussion. The core of this discussion is the role of biotic processes. Lovelock and Margulis (1974) formulated a theory that the self-organization in a global scale is an emergent characteristic of the Earth’s biota (Gaia theory).
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