Unravelling the thermodynamic properties of soil ecosystems in mature beech forests.

ABSTRACT: Thermodynamics is a vast area of knowledge with a debatable role in explaining the evolution of ecosystems. In the case of soil ecosystems, this role is still unclear due to difficulties in determining the thermodynamic functions that are involved in the survival and evolution of soils as living systems. The existing knowledge is largely based on theoretical approaches and has never been applied to soils using thermodynamic functions that have been experimentally determined. In this study, we present a method for the complete experimental thermodynamic characterization of soil organic matter. This method quantifies all the thermodynamic functions for combustion and formation reactions which are involved in the thermodynamic principles governing the evolution of the universe. We applied the

SUBMITTER: Barros N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11258282 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature