Problems of thermodynamic assessment of ecological system structure and arrangement

Abstract

Paradigm of the systems self-organization based on the thermodynamic laws, synergetics makes it possible to assess such features as energy capacity, arrangement, stability and development of ecological systems, quantitative measure of which are energy rates. Authors of the article are sure that classical physical laws of thermodynamics will help ecologists to understand the peculiarity of ecological system self-organization, disclose the mechanisms of progressive synevolution theory, driving force of which is energy potential, vector of which is directed on improvement of the methods for energy accumulation and transformation through adaptive properties of its types, develop the methods for quantitative assessment of energy rates at the level of ecological systems that will result in appearance of such new scientific trend as eco-thermodynamics.