Networks on Networks : The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry, Hardcover ...

by Allen G. Hunt, Stefano Manzoni

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Networks on Networks : The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry, Hardcover by Hunt, Allen G.; Manzoni, Stefano, ISBN 1643278266, ISBN-13 9781643278261, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how much physics has to change in order to address the complexity of biology. Phil Anderson, a physics Nobel laureate, contributed to popularizing a new notion of the end of “reductionism.” In this view, it is necessary to abandon the quest of reducing complex behavior to known physical results, and to identify emergent behaviors and principles. In the present book, however, we have sought physical rules that can underlie the behavior of biota as well as the geochemistry of soil development. We looked for fundamental principles, such as the dominance of water flow paths with the least cumulative resistance, that could maintain their relevance across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, together with the appropriate description of solute transport associated with such flow paths. Thus, ultimately, we address both nutrient and water transport limitations of processes from chemical weathering to vascular plant growth. The physical principles guiding our effort are established in different, but

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781643278261
• Condition: Fine

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