As an ecosystem in geological history, palaeocommunity has the essence of thermodynamics. This paperintroduces the concept of entropy into the study of the evolution of palaeo-community, and proposes fourparameters to represent the structure feature of palaeo-community. This theory is used to calculate the evolutionmode of branchipod community of Maokou formation in Liziya area, Huaying Moumtain, Sichuan.
矿业科学技术学报（英文） 
2003年第02期 
