Gaia’s Body Toward a Physiology of Earth

Gaia’s Body Toward a Physiology of Earth / by Tyler Volk.

Is Earth alive? Put more rigorously, is the biosphere a self- sustaining meta-organism? This is the essence of Gaia theory: if the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. OK, then,...

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Main Author: Volk, Tyler (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Earth sciences.
Geoecology.
Environmental geology.
Nature conservation.
Ecology .
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