Scientists on Gaia
Congress
xxii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
9780262193108, 0262193108
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Geophysiology : the science of Gaia / James E. Lovelock
The biota and Gaia : 150 years of support for environmental sciences / Lynn Margulis and Gregory Hinkle
Coevolution and its applicability to the Gaia hypothesis / Paul Ehrlich
A selection of biogenic influences relevant to the Gaia hypothesis / Walter Shearer
Gaia and the myths of harmony : an exploration of ethical and practical implications / John Visvader
The Gaia hypotheses : are they testable? Are they useful? / James W. Kirchner
Gaia : hypothesis or worldview? / John J. Kineman
The mechanical and the organic : on the impact of metaphor in science / David Abram
Ecosystem stability and diversity / John Harte
Earth
the water planet : a lucky coincidence? / B. Henderson-Sellers, A. Henderson-Sellers, S.M.P. Benbow, and K. McGuffie
The climate system and its regulation by atmospheric radiative processes / Jeffrey T. Kiehl
Theoretical microbial and vegetation control of planetary environments / Penelope J. Boston and Starley L. Thompson
Mechanisms for stabilization and destabilization of a simple biosphere : catastrophe on Daisyworld / Ralph Keeling
Radiative entropy as a measure of complexity / Glen B. Lesins
Geophysiological interaction in the global sulfur cycle / M.O. Andreae
Planetary homeostasis through the sulfur cycle / Glenn E. Shaw
Atmospheric sulfur from oceanic phytoplankton versus sulfur from industry : which dominates cloud condensation nuclei? / Robert J. Charlson
Evolutionary pressures on planktonic dimethylsulfide production / Ken Caldeira
Atmospheric oxygen, tectonics, and life / Robert A. Berner
Gaian and nongaian explanations for the contemporary level of atmospheric oxygen / G.R. Williams
The mechanisms that control the carbon dioxide and oxygen content of the atmosphere / Heinrich D. Holland
Feedback processes in the biogeochemical cycles of carbon / James C.G. Walker
Gaia's garden and BLAG's greenhouse : global biogeochemical climate regulation / Lee R. Kump and Tyler Volk
Tectonics, carbon, life, and climate for the last three billion years : a unified system? / Thomas R. Worsley, R. Damian Nance, and Judith B. Moody
Quantitative evolution of global biomass through time : biological and geochemical constraints / Manfred Schidlowski
Land biota, source or sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide : positive and negative feedbacks within a changing climate and land use development / G.H. Kohlmaier, Matthias Lüdeke, Alex Janecek, Günther Benderoth, Jürgen Kindermann, and Axel Klaudius
A geophysiological model for glacial-interglacial oscillations in the carbon and phosphorus cycles / Andrew J. Watson and Linda Maddock
Peatland formation and ice ages : a possible Gaian mechanism related to community succession / Lee F. Klinger
Some aspects of air-sea carbon dioxide transfer during the last glacial maximum / David J. Erickson III
Phanerozoic carbonate skeletal mineralogy and atmospheric carbon dioxide / William D. Bischoff and Collette D. Burke
Feedbacks between climate and carbon dioxide cycling by the land biosphere / Michael A. Palecki
Silica in the oceans : biological-geochemical interplay / Raymond Siever
Ephemeral biogenic emissions and the earth's radiative and oxidative environment / Robert B. Chatfield
The macromolecular matrix of plant cell walls as a major Gaian interfacial regulator in terrestrial environments / Paul S. Mankiewicz
Microbial weathering and Gaia / David Schwartzman, John Evans, Harold Okrend, and Soe Aung
Feedback mechanisms involving humic substances in aquatic ecosystems / Diane M. McKnight
An ecological rationale for the heterogeneity of humic substances : a holistic perspective on humus / Patrick MacCarthy and James A. Rice
Biomineralization and Gaia / John F. Stolz
The biosphere as a driver for global atmospheric change / Joel S. Levine
Fire in Phanerozoic cybernetics / Jennifer M. Robinson
Gaia and life on Mars / Christopher P. McKay and Carol R. Stoker
Gaia versus Shiva : cosmic effects on the long-term evolution of the terrestrial biosphere / Michael R. Rampino
Gaia on the brink : biogeochemical feedback processes in global warming / Daniel A. Lashof
The greenhouse civilization and the Gaia hypothesis : a view from Congress / George E. Brown Jr. and Anthony Ellsworth Scoville
Based on papers delivered at the American Geophysical Union's annual Chapman Conference in March, 1988, in San Diego, Calif
Based on papers delivered at the American Geophysical Union's annual Chapman Conference in March, 1988, San Diego.