| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 正題名/作者: |
Scientists debate Gaia/ edited by Stephen H. Schneider ... [et al.]. |
| 其他題名: |
the next century / |
| 其他作者: |
Schneider, Stephen Henry. |
| 出版者: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2004., |
| 面頁冊數: |
xvii, 377 p. :ill., maps ;29 cm. |
| 附註: |
Title from ebook title screen (viewed Feb. 1, 2005). |
| 內容註: |
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. F鋌llmi ... [et al.] -- 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 -- |
| 內容註: |
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 G漃mez -- 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 ... [et al.] -- The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment / Felipe G漃mez ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| 標題: |
Gaia hypothesis. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126024An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417574437 (electronic bk.) |