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

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245 0 0 |a Scientists debate gaia :  |b the next century /  |c edited by Stephen H. Schneider ... [et al.]. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c 2004. 
300 |a xvii, 377 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 29 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r Pedro Ruiz Torres --  |t Reflections on Gaia /  |r James Lovelock --  |t Gaia by any other name /  |r Lynn Margulis --  |g 1.  |t Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection /  |r Timothy M. Lenton --  |g 2.  |t Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts /  |r Tyler Volk --  |g 3.  |t Models and geophysical hypotheses /  |r Arthur C. Petersen --  |g 4.  |t Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life /  |r Eric D. Schneider --  |g 5.  |t Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis /  |r J. Scott Turner --  |g 6.  |t Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation /  |r David Wilkinson --  |g 7.  |t Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? : biosphere remediation rather than regulation /  |r Karl B. Follmi, Federica Tamburini, Rachel Hosein, Bas van de Schootbrugge, Kaspar Arn and Claire Rambeau --  |g 8.  |t Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere /  |r Lee R. Kump --  |g 9.  |t A new biogeochemical earth system model for the phanerozoic eon /  |r Noam M. Bergman, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson --  |g 10.  |t Gaia and glaciation : lipalian (vendian) environmental crisis /  |r Mark A. S. McMenamin --  |g 11.  |t Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere? /  |r David Schwartzman and Tyler Volk --  |g 12.  |t Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources /  |r Toby Tyrrell --  |g 13.  |t Gaia : the living earth - 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy /  |r Bruce Scofield --  |g 14.  |t Concerned with trifles? : a geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book /  |r Eileen Crist --  |g 15.  |t Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life /  |r Dorion Sagan and Jessica H. Whiteside --  |g 16.  |t Gaia and complexity /  |r Lee F. Klinger --  |g 17.  |t Gaia and observer self-selection /  |r Andrew J. Watson --  |g 18.  |t Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change /  |r Peter Westbroek --  |g 19.  |t Gaia and the human species /  |r Crispin Tickell --  |g 20.  |t Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system /  |r S. L. Weber and J. M. Robinson --  |g 21.  |t Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework /  |r K. M. Nordstrom, V. K. Gupta and T. N. Chase --  |g 22.  |t Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model /  |r Stephan P. Harding --  |g 23.  |t Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach /  |r Keith L. Downing --  |g 24.  |t On causality and ice age deglaciations /  |r Alexandre Casanovas and Vicent Gomez --  |g 25.  |t Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia /  |r Axel Kleidon --  |g 26.  |t Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system /  |r James R. Miller and Gary L. Russell --  |g 27.  |t Extraterrestrial Gaias /  |r Siegfried Franck, Werner von Bloh, Christine Bounama and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber --  |g 28.  |t The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment /  |r Felipe Gomez, David Fernandez-Remolar, Elena Gonzalez-Toril and Ricardo Amils --  |g 29.  |t Climate and the Amazon - a Gaian system? /  |r Peter Bunyard --  |g 30.  |t On the co-evolution of life and its environment /  |r S. A. L. M. Kooijman --  |g 31.  |t Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology /  |r Francesco Santini and Lodovico Galleni --  |g App.  |t Studying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program. 
650 0 |a Gaia hypothesis. 
700 1 |a Schneider, Stephen Henry. 
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