title: Robustness and time-scale hierarchy in biological systems.
abstract: This study addresses the issue of robustness of biological systems with respect to microscopic parameters, especially the emergence of robustness as a consequence of time-scale hierarchy, applying naive thermodynamic and dynamic assumptions. Theoretical considerations of how the time-scale hierarchy can decouple physiological regulatory mechanisms are illustrated by two model systems involving the photosynthetic apparatus of green plants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rojdestvenski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cottam
authors.forename: Y I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Oquist
mesh_terms: D007700:Kinetics; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013995:Time