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name: thinker-howard-t-odum
description: Apply the Howard T. Odum: Energy Flows and Ecosystem Networks article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Howard T. Odum: Energy Flows and Ecosystem Networks

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-howard-t-odum). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-howard-t-odum.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-howard-t-odum/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Odum Saw Howard T. Odum mapped ecosystems as networks of energy flows. He measured how solar energy enters at the base and moves through trophic levels. He tracked the rate of useful work each level performs. Odum observed that systems

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-howard-t-odum
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-howard-t-odum
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-howard-t-odum/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-howard-t-odum/revisions
