Title

Equivalence of throughflow- and storage-based environs

Authors

Authors

S. A. Bata; S. R. Borrett; B. C. Patten; S. J. Whipple; J. R. Schramski;D. K. Gattie

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Ecol. Model.

Keywords

throughflow environ; storage environ; ecosystem; network; ecological; network analysis; holism; NEUSE RIVER ESTUARY; 7-COMPARTMENT MODEL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; NITROGEN; FLOW; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY; ECOLOGY; SYSTEMS; USA; Ecology

Abstract

An environ is a within-system partition of the environment associated with each ecosystem component. The methodologies for calculating through flow-based and storage-based environs have heretofore been considered quantitatively and qualitatively different. Below, we show, from the fundamental environ equations, that these two approaches are mathematically equivalent by proving the throughflow-storage-equivalence relationship, E-T = E-S. This implies that ecosystem flows of energy or matter to storage and throughflow are one and the same, differing only in storage delays (flow impedances) along the way in the storage case. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Ecological Modelling

Volume

206

Issue/Number

3-4

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

400

Last Page

406

WOS Identifier

WOS:000249003900014

ISSN

0304-3800

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