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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.