The Molecular Biology of GaiaColumbia University Press, 1996 M11 12 - 256 pages -- Northeastern Naturalist |
Contents
The Question of Habitability | 1 |
Extinctions | 3 |
Geochemical Shifts | 7 |
Ice Ages | 9 |
Biogeochemical Cycles | 14 |
Assimilation in the Carbon Cycle | 20 |
Regenerating the Nutrient Pool | 25 |
Dimensions of the Anthropogenic Perturbation | 36 |
Gala and Geophysiology | 106 |
Justifying the Gaian Metaphors | 109 |
Patterns of Metabolic Control | 112 |
3 Enzymic Cascades | 116 |
Organismic Homeostasis | 118 |
Teleonomy and the Biological Critique of Gaia | 121 |
Adaptation in Molecular Terms | 125 |
The Evolution of Physiological Regulation | 128 |
Human Impact on the Carbon Cycle | 39 |
2 Other Carbon Compounds of the Atmosphere | 49 |
Human Impact on the Nitrogen Cycle | 52 |
Human Impact on the Phosphorus Cycle | 55 |
Human Impact on the Sulfur Cycle | 57 |
Acid Rain | 58 |
Ozone | 60 |
The Greenhouse Effect | 63 |
The Life Boundary and Environmental Homeostasis | 65 |
The Basis for Stability | 69 |
Biochemical Processes in the Geochemical Feedback Loops | 77 |
Global Metabolism Geophysiology and Gaian Metaphors | 101 |
Description Simile or Metaphor? | 102 |
Gala Adaptation and Selection | 132 |
The Daisyworld Answer and Its Problems | 136 |
How Can a Daisyworld Originate? | 140 |
Molecular Regulation and Global Metabolism | 144 |
Coordination at the Ecological Level | 147 |
The Molecular Basis of the Global Nitrogen Cycle | 152 |
The Molecular Control of Glutamine Synthetase | 155 |
The Molecular Control of Nitrate Reductase | 165 |
The Molecular Control of Nitrogenase | 169 |
Toward a Molecular Biology of Gaia | 174 |
References | 181 |
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