Title

Equivalence Of Throughflow- And Storage-Based Environs

Keywords

Ecological network analysis; Ecosystem; Holism; Network; Storage environ; Throughflow environ

Abstract

An environ is a within-system partition of the environment associated with each ecosystem component. The methodologies for calculating throughflow-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, TE = SE. 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. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

8-24-2007

Publication Title

Ecological Modelling

Volume

206

Issue

3-4

Number of Pages

400-406

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.04.005

Socpus ID

34447562606 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34447562606

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