Research Catalog

Title

Scientists debate gaia : the next century / edited by Stephen H. Schneider [and others].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Schneider, Stephen Henry.

Description

xvii, 377 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Gaia hypothesis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Pedro Ruiz Torres -- Reflections on Gaia / James Lovelock -- Gaia by any other name / Lynn Margulis -- 1. Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection / Timothy M. Lenton -- 2. Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts / Tyler Volk -- 3. Models and geophysical hypotheses / Arthur C. Petersen -- 4. Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life / Eric D. Schneider -- 5. Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis / J. Scott Turner -- 6. Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation / David Wilkinson -- 7. Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? : biosphere remediation rather than regulation / Karl B. Follmi, Federica Tamburini, Rachel Hosein, Bas van de Schootbrugge, Kaspar Arn and Claire Rambeau -- 8. Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere / Lee R. Kump -- 9. A new biogeochemical earth system model for the phanerozoic eon / Noam M. Bergman, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson -- 10. Gaia and glaciation : lipalian (vendian) environmental crisis / Mark A. S. McMenamin -- 11. Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere? / David Schwartzman and Tyler Volk -- 12. Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources / Toby Tyrrell -- 13. Gaia : the living earth - 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy / Bruce Scofield -- 14. Concerned with trifles? : a geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book / Eileen Crist -- 15. Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life / Dorion Sagan and Jessica H. Whiteside -- 16. Gaia and complexity / Lee F. Klinger -- 17. Gaia and observer self-selection / Andrew J. Watson -- 18. Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change / Peter Westbroek -- 19. Gaia and the human species / Crispin Tickell -- 20. Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system / S. L. Weber and J. M. Robinson -- 21. Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework / K. M. Nordstrom, V. K. Gupta and T. N. Chase -- 22. Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model / Stephan P. Harding -- 23. Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach / Keith L. Downing -- 24. On causality and ice age deglaciations / Alexandre Casanovas and Vicent Gomez -- 25. Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia / Axel Kleidon -- 26. Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system / James R. Miller and Gary L. Russell -- 27. Extraterrestrial Gaias / Siegfried Franck, Werner von Bloh, Christine Bounama and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -- 28. The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment / Felipe Gomez, David Fernandez-Remolar, Elena Gonzalez-Toril and Ricardo Amils -- 29. Climate and the Amazon - a Gaian system? / Peter Bunyard -- 30. On the co-evolution of life and its environment / S. A. L. M. Kooijman -- 31. Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology / Francesco Santini and Lodovico Galleni -- App. Studying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program.

ISBN

0262194988 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003061532

OCLC

• ocm53483471
• SCSB-5077669

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries