Kineman, J. 1997. Theory of Autevolution
Chapter references in: Scientists on Gaia
Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston (eds.)
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Book reference:
Schneider, S. H., and P. J. Boston (eds). 1991. Scientists
on Gaia. Papers delivered at the American Geophysical Union’s
annual Chapman Conference in March, 1988. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
433p. [currently out of print]
I Gaia: An Overview
- 1. Geophysiology – The Science of Gaia (James E. Lovelock)
- 2. The Biota and Gaia: 150 Years of Support for Environmental
Sciences (Lynn Margulis and Gregory Hinkle)- 3. Coevolution and Its Applicability to the Gaia Hypothesis
(Paul Erlich)- 4. A Selection of Biogenic Influences Relevant to the Gaia
Hypothesis (Walter Shearer) - 2. The Biota and Gaia: 150 Years of Support for Environmental
- 5. Gaia and the Myths of Harmony:
an Exploration of Ethical and Practical Implications (John Visvader)- 6. The Gaia Hypotheses: Are they testable?
Are they useful? (James W. Kirchner)- 7. Gaia: Hypothesis or Worldview?
(John J. Kineman)- 8. The Mechanical and Organic: On
the Impact of Metaphor in Science (David Abram) - 6. The Gaia Hypotheses: Are they testable?
III Theoretical Foundations of Gaia
- 9. Ecosystem Stability and Diversity (John Harte)
- 10. Earth – The Water Planet: A Lucky Coincidence (B. Henderson-Sellers,
A. Henderson-Sellers, S.M.P. Benbow, and K. McGuffie)- 11. The Climate System and Its Regulation by Atmospheric Radiative
Processes (Jeffrey T. Kiehl)- 12. Theoretical Microbial and Vegetation Control of Planetary
Environments (Penelope J. Boston and Starley L. Thompson)- 13. Mechanisms for Stabilization and Destabilization of a
Simple Biosphere: Catastrophe on Daisyworld (Ralph Keeling)- 14. Radiative Entropy as a Measure of Complexity (Glen B.
Lesins) - 10. Earth – The Water Planet: A Lucky Coincidence (B. Henderson-Sellers,
IV Mechanisms: Sulfur
- 15. Geophysiological Interaction in the Global Sulfur Cycle
(M.O. Andreae)- 16. Planetary Homeostasis Through the Sulfur Cycle (Glenn
E. Shaw)- 17. Atmospheric Sulfur from Oceanic Phytoplankton Versus Sulfur
from Industry: Which Dominates Cloud Condensation Nuclei? (Robert
J. Charlson)- 18. Evolutionary Pressures on Planktonic Dimethylsulfide Production
(Ken Caldeira) - 16. Planetary Homeostasis Through the Sulfur Cycle (Glenn
Mechanisms: Oxygen
- 19. Atmospheric Oxygen, Tectonics, and Life (Robert A. Berner)
- 20. Gaian and Nongaian Explanations for the Contemporary Level
of Atmospheric Oxygen (G.R. Williams)- 21. The Mechanisms That Control the Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
Content of the Atmosphere (Heinrich D. Holland)- 22. Feedback Processes in the Biogeochemical Cycles of Cargon
(James C.G. Walker)- 23. Gaia’s Garden and BLAG’s Greenhouse: Global Biogeochemical
Climate Regulation (Lee R. Kump and Tyler Volk)- 24. Tectonics, Carbon, Life, and Climate for the Last Three
Billion Years: A Unified System? (Thomas R. Worsley, R. Damian
Nance, and Judith B. Moody)- 25. Quantitative Evolution of Global Biomass Through Time:
Biological and Geochemical Constraints (Manfred Schidlowski)- 26. 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 Ludeke, Alex Janeck,
Gunther Benderoth, Jurgen Kindermann, and Axel Klaudius)- 27. A Geophysiological Model for Glacial-Interglacial Oscillations
in the Carbon and Phosphorus Cycles (Andrew J. Watson and Linda
Maddock)- 28. Peatland Formation and Ice Ages: A Possible Gaian Mechanism
Related to Community Succession (Lee F. Klinger)- 29. Some Aspects of Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Transfer During
the Last Glacial Maximum (David J. Erikson III)- 30. Phanerozoic Carbonate Skeletal Mineralogy and Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide (William D. Bischoff and Collette D. Burke)- 31. Feedbacks Between Climate and Carbon Dioxide Cycling by
the Land Biosphere (Michael A. Palecki) - 20. Gaian and Nongaian Explanations for the Contemporary Level
VII Other Mechanisms
- 32. Silica in the Oceans: Biological-Geochemical Interplay
(Raymond Siever)- 33. Ephemeral Biogenic Emissions and the Earth’s Radiative
and Oxidative Environment (Robert B. Chatfield)- 34. The Macromolecular Matrix of Plant Cell Walls as a Major
Gaian Interfacial Regulator in Terrestrial Environments (Paul
S. Mankiewiez)- 35. Microbial Weathering and Gaia (David Schwartzman, John
Evans, Harold Okrend, and Soe Aung)- 36. Feedback Mechanisms Involving Humic Substances in Aquatic
Ecosystems (Diane M. McKnight)- 37. An Ecological Rationale for the Heterogeneity of Humic
Substances: A Holistic Perspective on Humus (Patrick MacCarthy
and James A. Rice).- 38. Biomineralization and Gaia (John F. Stolz)
- 39. The Biosphere as a Driver for Global Atmospheric Change
(Joel S. Levine)- 40. Fire in Phaerozoic Cybernetics (Jennifer M. Robinson)
- 33. Ephemeral Biogenic Emissions and the Earth’s Radiative
VIII Gaia, Catastrophes, and Other Planets
- 41. Gaia and Life on Mars (Christopher P. McKay and Carol
R. Stoker)- 42. Gaia Versus Shiva: Cosmic Effects on the Long-Term Evolution
of the Terrestrial Biosphere (Michael R. Rampino) - 42. Gaia Versus Shiva: Cosmic Effects on the Long-Term Evolution
IX Policy Implications
- 43. Gaia on the Brink: Biogeochemical Feedback Processes in
Global Warming (Daniel A. Lashof)- 44. The Greenhouse Civilization and the Gaia Hypothesis: A
View from Congress (Congressman George E. Brown, Jr. and Anthony
Ellsworth Scoville). - 44. The Greenhouse Civilization and the Gaia Hypothesis: A
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