Life, Temperature, and the Earth: The Self-Organizing Biosphere
The idea that living things and the atmosphere, oceans, and soils comprise an interactive, self-regulating system -- the Gaia concept -- was first proposed nearly thirty years ago. Since then researchers have been seeking new connections between life and the global environment. David Schwartzman contributes to that search by examining how the Earth's biosphere regulates itself over geologic time. Emphasizing long-term geologic trends -- not the short-term perturbations that have received so...
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Life, Temperature, and the Earth analyzes and modifies important aspects of the Gaia hypothesis in light of geochemical, geophysical, mathematical, and paleontological data that were either ignored or unavailable when the hypothesis was developed. Schwartzman argues that the Earth's climatic temperature has been biologically regulated amid the backdrop of variable volcanic outgassing and an evolving sun. Warwick F. Vincent A scholarly work with a wealth of useful information and ideas that cut across the usual disciplinary boundaries. As such, the book will be of appeal to a broad range of specialists including terrestrial and aquatic ecologists, microbiologists, climatologists and geochemists.
\ Ecoscience\ - Warwick F. Vincent\ A scholarly work with a wealth of useful information and ideas that cut across the usual disciplinary boundaries. As such, the book will be of appeal to a broad range of specialists including terrestrial and aquatic ecologists, microbiologists, climatologists and geochemists.\ \ \ \ \ \ EcoscienceA scholarly work with a wealth of useful information and ideas that cut across the usual disciplinary boundaries. As such, the book will be of appeal to a broad range of specialists including terrestrial and aquatic ecologists, microbiologists, climatologists and geochemists.\ — Warwick F. Vincent\ \ \ \ BiologistWell-referenced... makes a good entry point into this arcane but important subject area.\ \ \ \ \ \ Lynn MargulisSchwartzman´s account of the current status of our ancient self-organizing biosphere helps reunite the arbitrary schism between biology and geology. As a modern, 'hard-science´ natural history, this readable book that details the reciprocal effects of Earth´s changing conditions, especially temperature, on life and its evolutionary history, fascinates. Highly original yet entirely responsible, this work will be of great interest especially to environmental scientists and their students.\ \ \ \ \ Warwick F. VincentA scholarly work with a wealth of useful information and ideas that cut across the usual disciplinary boundaries. As such, the book will be of appeal to a broad range of specialists including terrestrial and aquatic ecologists, microbiologists, climatologists and geochemists.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsSchwartzman (biology, Howard University) contributes to the search for new connections between life and the global environment by examining how the Earth's biosphere regulates itself over geologic time. Emphasizing long-term trends, he presents and elucidates his theory of biospheric evolution. He updates and modifies aspects of the Gaia hypothesis in light of new geochemical, geophysical, mathematical, and paleontological data, and argues that the Earth's climatic temperature has been biologically regulated amid the backdrop of variable volcanic outgassing and an evolving sun. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
