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100 1 $aWilliams, George Ronald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96032266
245 14 $aThe molecular biology of Gaia /$cGeorge Ronald Williams.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiv, 210 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-203) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Question of Habitability.$tExtinctions.$tGeochemical Shifts.$tIce Ages.$tBiogeochemical Cycles.$tAssimilation in the Carbon Cycle.$tRegenerating the Nutrient Pool --$g2.$tDimensions of the Anthropogenic Perturbation.$tHuman Impact on the Carbon Cycle (1) Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide; (2) Other Carbon Compounds of the Atmosphere.$tHuman Impact on the Nitrogen Cycle.$tHuman Impact on the Phosphorus Cycle.$tHuman Impact on the Sulfur Cycle.$tAcid Rain.$tOzone.$tThe Greenhouse Effect --$g3.$tThe Life Boundary and Environmental Homeostasis.$tThe Basis for Stability (1) Luck; (2) Size; (3) Equilibrium; (4) Feedback.$tBiochemical Processes in the Geochemical Feedback Loops (1) Oxygen; (2) Carbon Dioxide; (3) Sulfate and Clouds --$g4.$tGlobal Metabolism, Geophysiology, and Gaian Metaphors.$tGlobal Metabolism: Description, Simile, or Metaphor?$tGaia and Geophysiology.$tJustifying the Gaian Metaphors.
505 80 $tPatterns of Metabolic Control (1) Feedback Inhibition; (2) Allosteric Modulation; (3) Enzymic Cascades; (4) Gene Regulation.$tOrganismic Homeostasis --$g5.$tTeleonomy and the Biological Critique of Gaia.$tHabitability and Adaptation.$tAdaptation in Molecular Terms.$tThe Evolution of Physiological Regulation.$tGaia, Adaptation, and Selection.$tThe Daisyworld Answer and Its Problems.$tHow Can a Daisyworld Originate? --$g6.$tMolecular Regulation and Global Metabolism.$tCan Global Stability Be Linked to Physiological Homeostasis?$tLiebig's Law and Redfield's Ratios: Coordination at the Ecological Level.$tThe Molecular Basis of the Global Nitrogen Cycle.$tThe Molecular Control of Glutamine Synthetase.$tThe Molecular Control of Nitrate Reductase.$tThe Molecular Control of Nitrogenase.$tToward a Molecular Biology of Gaia.
650 0 $aGaia hypothesis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000383
650 0 $aMolecular biology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086577
852 00 $boff,glg$hQH331$i.W495 1996
852 00 $bglg$hQH331$i.W495 1996