Scientists debate Gaia
Subtitle: the next century
By: edited by Stephen H. Schneider ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schneider, Stephen Henry.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Gaia hypothesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Pedro Ruiz Torres; title: Reflections on Gaia / James Lovelock; title: Gaia by any other name / Lynn Margulis; title: Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection / Timothy M. Lenton; title: Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts / Tyler Volk; title: Models and geophysiological hypotheses / Arthur C. Petersen; title: Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life / Eric D. Schneider; title: Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis / J. Scott Turner; title: Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation / David Wilkinson; title: Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? Biosphere remediation rather than regulation / Karl B. Föllmi ... [et al.]; title: Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere / Lee R. Kump; title: A new biogeochemical earth system model for the Phanerozoic Eon / Noam M. Bergman, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson; title: Gaia and glaciation : Lipalian (Vendian) environmental crisis / Mark A.S. McMenamin; title: Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere? / David Schwartzman and Tyler Volk; title: Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources / Toby Tyrrell; title: Gaia : the living earth - 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy / Bruce Scofield; title: Concerned with trifles? A geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book / Eileen Crist; title: Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life / Dorion Sagan and Jessica Hope Whiteside; title: Gaia and complexity / Lee F. Klinger; title: Gaia and observer self-selection / Andrew J. Watson; title: Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change / Peter Westbroek; title: Gaia and the human species / Crispin Tickell; title: Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system / S.L. Weber and J.M. Robinson; title: Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework / K.M. Nordstrom, V.K. Gupta and T.N. Chase; title: Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model / Stephan P. Harding; title: Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach / Keith Downing; title: On causality and ice age deglaciations / Alexandre Casanovas and Vicent Gómez; title: Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia / Axel Kleidon; title: Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system / James R. Miller and Gary L. Russell; title: Extraterrestrial Gaias / S. Franck ... [et al.]; title: The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment / Felipe Gómez ... [et al.]; title: Climate and the Amazon - a Gaian system? / Peter Bunyard; title: On the co-evolution of life and its environment / S.A.L.M. Kooijman; title: Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology / Francesco Santini and Lodovico Galleni; title: Appendix. Studying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program.