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Scientists debate Gaia : the next century /

The Gaia hypothesis holds that the Earth's physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex self-regulating system, and that life has affected this over time. This title examines both this theory, as well as other Gaian processes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schneider, Stephen Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword / Pedro Ruiz Torres -- Reflections on Gaia / James Lovelock -- Gaia by any other name / Lynn Margulis -- Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection / Timothy M. Lenton -- Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts / Tyler Volk -- Models and geophysiological hypotheses / Arthur C. Petersen -- Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life / Eric D. Schneider -- Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis / J. Scott Turner -- Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation / David Wilkinson -- Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? Biosphere remediation rather than regulation / Karl B. Föllmi [and others] -- Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere / Lee R. Kump -- A new biogeochemical earth system model for the Phanerozoic Eon / Noam M. Bergman, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson -- Gaia and glaciation : Lipalian (Vendian) environmental crisis / Mark A.S. McMenamin -- Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere? / David Schwartzman and Tyler Volk -- Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources / Toby Tyrrell -- Gaia : the living earth -- 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy / Bruce Scofield -- Concerned with trifles? A geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book / Eileen Crist -- Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life / Dorion Sagan and Jessica Hope Whiteside -- Gaia and complexity / Lee F. Klinger -- Gaia and observer self-selection / Andrew J. Watson -- Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change / Peter Westbroek -- Gaia and the human species / Crispin Tickell. 
505 0 |a Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system / S.L. Weber and J.M. Robinson -- Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework / K.M. Nordstrom, V.K. Gupta and T.N. Chase -- Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model / Stephan P. Harding -- Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach / Keith Downing -- On causality and ice age deglaciations / Alexandre Casanovas and Vicent Gómez -- Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia / Axel Kleidon -- Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system / James R. Miller and Gary L. Russell -- Extraterrestrial Gaias / S. Franck [and others] -- The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment / Felipe Gómez [and others] -- Climate and the Amazon -- a Gaian system? / Peter Bunyard -- On the co-evolution of life and its environment / S.A.L.M. Kooijman -- Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology / Francesco Santini and Lodovico Galleni -- Appendix. Studying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program. 
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