ABSTRACT
Energy became associated with ecology during the last years of the 1950s due to the brothers Odum, but not much interest for these approaches was shown by ecologists in the 1960s and 1970s with some few exceptions. During the last decade, an escalating interest for the use of thermodynamics in ecology has emerged with the result, that during the last 4 to 5 years, many papers on the application of thermodynamics to understand ecology have been published.
