Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4378651 | Ecological Modelling | 2007 | 7 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Seth A. Bata, Stuart R. Borrett, Bernard C. Patten, Stuart J. Whipple, John R. Schramski, David K. Gattie,