Kineman, J. 1997. Theory of Autevolution

Chapter references in: Scientists on Gaia

Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston (eds.)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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).

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