Gaia's Body : Toward a Physiology of Earth /

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
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1998.
Subjects:	Geography. Ecology. Nature conservation. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book