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Daisyworld

Cohen, J. E., and Rich, A. D. (2000).
Interspecific competition affects temperature stability in Daisyworld.
Tellus 52B(3): 980-984.

De Gregorio, S., R. A. Pielke, et al. (1992).
Feedback Between a Simple Biosystem and the Temperature of the Earth.
Journal of Nonlinear Science 2: 263-292.

De Gregorio, S., R. A. Pielke, et al. (1992).
A Delayed Biophysical System for the Earth's Climate.
Journal of Nonlinear Science 2: 293-318.

Harding, S. P. (1999).
Food web complexity enhances community stability and climate regulation in a geophysiological model.
Tellus 51B: 815-829.

Harding, S. P. and J. E. Lovelock (1996).
Exploiter-mediated Coexistence and Frequency-Dependent Selection in a Numerical Model of Biodiversity.
Journal of theoretical Biology 182: 109-116.

Jascourt, S. D. and W. H. Raymond (1992).
Comments on "Chaos in daisyworld" by X. Zeng et al.
Tellus 44B: 243-246.

Keeling, R. (1991).
Mechanisms for Stabilization and Destabilization of a Simple Biosphere: Catastrophe on Daisyworld.
In: S. H. Schneider and P. J. Boston. Scientists on Gaia. London: The MIT Press, 118-120.

Kirchner, J. W. (1989).
The Gaia Hypothesis: Can it be Tested?
Reviews of Geophysics 27: 223-235.

Kump, L.R. and Lovelock, J.E., (1995).
The geophysiology of climate.
In: Henderson-Sellers, A. (ed.), Future Climates of the World, V. 16, World Survey of Climatology, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Chapter 14p. 537-553.

Lenton, T. M., and Betts, R. A. (1998).
From Daisyworld to GCMs: Using Models to Understand the Regulation of Climate.
In: ERCA - Volume 3 - From Urban Air Pollution to Extra-Solar Planets (eds. C. Boutron). EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France, 145-167.

Lenton, T. M. and J. E. Lovelock (2000).
Daisyworld is Darwinian: Constraints on Adaptation are Important for Planetary Self-Regulation.
Journal of theoretical Biology 206, 109-114.

Lovelock, J. E. (1983a).
Gaia as seen through the atmosphere.
In: P. Westbroek and E. W. d. Jong. Biomineralization and Biological Metal Accumulation. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 15-25.

Lovelock, J. E. (1983b).
Daisy World - A Cybernetic Proof of the Gaia Hypothesis.
The Co-evolution Quarterly Summer: 66-72.

Lovelock, J. E. (1986).
Geophysiology: A New Look at Earth Science.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 67: 392-397.

Lovelock, J. E. (1989).
Geophysiology.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 80: 169-175.

Lovelock, J. E. (1992).
A numerical model for biodiversity.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 338: 383-391.

Lovelock, J.E. and Kump, L.R., (1994).
Failure of climate regulation in a geophysiological model.
Nature, 369:732-734.

Maddock, L. (1991).
Effects of simple environmental feedback on some population models.
Tellus 43B: 331-337.

Nevison, C., V. Gupta, et al. (1999).
Self-sustained temperature oscillations on Daisyworld.
Tellus 51B: 806-814.

Robertson, D. and J. Robinson (1998).
Darwinian Daisyworld.
Journal of theoretical Biology 195: 129-134.

Saunders, P. T. (1994).
Evolution without Natural Selection: Further Implications of the Daisyworld Parable.
Journal of theoretical Biology 166: 365-373.

Stöcker, S. (1995).
Regarding Mutations in Daisyworld Models.
Journal of theoretical Biology 175: 495-501.

Von Bloh, W., A. Block, et al. (1997).
Self-stabilization of the biosphere under global change: a tutorial geophysiological approach.
Tellus 49B: 249-262. (abstract)

Von Bloh W., A. Block, et al. (1999).
Tutorial Modelling of geosphere-biosphere interactions: the effect of percolation-type habitat fragmentation.
Physica A 266: 186-196.

Watson, A. J. and J. E. Lovelock (1983).
Biological homeostasis of the global environment: the parable of Daisyworld.
Tellus 35B: 284-289.

Weber, S.L. (2000).
On Homeostasis in Daisyworld.
Climatic Change, in press. (abstract)

Wilkinson D.M. (2003) Catastrophes on Daisyworld. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 266-268.

Zeng, X., R. A. Pielke, et al. (1990).
Chaos in daisyworld.
Tellus 42B: 309-318.

# Artificial Life

Downing, K. (1997).
EUZONE: Simulating the emergence of aquatic ecosystems.
Artificial Life Journal, vol. 3(4), pp. 307-333.

Downing, K., and Zvirinsky, P. (1999).
The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection.
Artificial Life 5(4). (abstract/html)

Downing, K. (2000).
Exploring Gaia Theory: Artificial Life on a Planetary Scale.
(abstract) (zipped postscript)

Lenton, T. M. (1999).
Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life.
5th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-10.

# Cybernetics

Andrew, A. M. (1996).
The challenge of Daisyworld.
Kybernetes 25(7/8): 94-99.

# Earth System Modelling

Betts, R. A. (1999).
Self-beneficial effects of vegetation on climate in an Ocean- Atmosphere General Circulation Model.
Geophysical Research Letters 26(10), 1457-1460.

Cox PM, Betts RA, Jones CD, Spall SA, Totterdell IJ (2000).
Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model.
Nature, 408, 184-187.

Franck, S., Kossacki, K.J., Von Bloh, W. and Bounama, C., (2002).
Long-term evolution of the global carbon cycle: historic minimum of global surface temperature at present.
Tellus 54B, 325-343.

Kump, L.R. and Volk, T., (1991).
Gaia's garden and BLAG's greenhouse: global biogeochemical climate regulation.
In: Schneider, S.H. and Boston, P.J.0 (eds.), Scientists on Gaia, MIT Press, p. 191-199.

Lenton, T. M., and Watson, A. J. (1999a).
Redfield revisited 1. Regulation of nitrate, phosphate and oxygen in the ocean.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14(1), 225-248.

Lenton, T. M., and Watson, A. J. (1999b).
Redfield revisited 2. What regulates the oxygen content of the atmosphere?
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14(1), 249-268.

Lenton, T. (2000).
Land and ocean carbon cycle feedback effects on global warming in a simple Earth system model.
Tellus, 52B, 1159-1188.

Lovelock, J. and Whitfield, M. (1982).
Life span of the biosphere.
Nature, 296, 561-563.

Schellnhuber, H. J. (1999).
'Earth system' analysis and the second Copernican revolution.
Nature 402(6761), C19-C23.

Tyrrell, T. (1999)
The relative influence of nitrogen and phosphorus on oceanic primary producton.
Nature, 400, 525-531.

Watson, A. J., and Maddock, L. (1991).
A Geophysiological Model for Glacial-Interglacial Oscillations in the Carbon and Phosphorus Cycles.
In: Scientists on Gaia (eds. S. H. Schneider and P. J. Boston). MIT Press, London, 240-246.

Watson, A. J., and Liss, P. S. (1998).
Marine biological controls on climate via the carbon and sulphur geochemical cycles.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 353, 41-51.

Whitfield, M. (2000).
Interactions between phytoplankton and trace metals in the ocean.
Advances in Marine Biology, in press.

# Ecology

Adams, B. and Carr, J. (submitted)
Spatial pattern formation in a model of vegetation-climate feedback
Nonlinearity.

Lansing, J. S., J. N. Kremer, et al. (1998).
System-dependent Selection, Ecological Feedback and the Emergence of Functional Structure in Ecosystems.
Journal of theoretical Biology 192: 377-391. (abstract) (html)

White, A., Begon, M., and Bowers, R. G. (1996a).
Explaining the colour of power spectra in chaotic ecological models.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 263, 1731-1737.

White, A., Begon, M., and Bowers, R. G. (1996b).
Host-pathogen systems in a spatially patchy environment.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 263, 325-332.

White, A., Bowers, R. G., and Begon, M. (1996c).
Host-pathogen cycles in self-regulated forest insect systems: Resolving conflicting predictions.
The American Naturalist 148(1), 220-225.

White, A., Bowers, R. G., and Begon, M. (1996d).
Red/Blue chaotic power spectra.
Nature 381, 198.

Wilkinson D.M. (2003) The fundamental processes in ecology: a thought experiment on extraterrestrial biospheres. Biological Reviews 78, 171-179.

Wilkinson D.M. (2004) Do we need a process based approach to nature conservation? Continuing the parable of Green Mountain, Ascension Island. Journal of Biogeography 31, 2041-2042.

# Entropy

Dewar, R.C. (submitted).
Information theoretic explanation of maximum entropy production, the fluctuation theorem and self-organized criticality in non-equilibrium stationary states.
Journal of Physics A.

Lorenz, R.D. (2002)
Planets, life and the production of entropy.
International Journal of Astrobiology 1, 3-13.

Lorenz, R.D., Lunine, J.I., Withers, P.G. and McKay, C.P. (2001)
Titan, Mars and Earth: Entropy Production by Latitudinal Heat Transport.
Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 415-418.

Lotka, A.J. (1922)
Contribution to the energetics of evolution.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 8, 147-150.

Ozawa, H., Shimokawa, S. and Sakuma, H. (2001)
Thermodynamics of fluid turbulence: A unified approach to the maximum transport properties.
Physical Review E 64, 026303.

Paltridge, G.W. (1975)
Global dynamics and climate - a system of minimum entropy exchange.
Q. J. R. met. Soc. 101, 475-484.

Pujol, T. (2002)
The consequence of maximum thermodynamic efficiency in Daisyworld.
J. theor. Biol. 217, 53-60.

Shimokawa, S. and Ozawa, H. (2002)
On the thermodynamics of the oceanic general circulation: Irreversible transition to a state with higher rate of entropy production.
Q. J. R. met. Soc. 128, 2115-2128.

# Gaia And Natural Selection

Betts, R.A. and Lenton, T. M. (submitted).
The origin of planetary self-regulation by means of sequential selection.
Climate Change.

Lenton, T. M. and van Oijen, M. (2002).
Gaia as a complex adaptive system.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 357, 683-695.

Lenton T.M. and Wilkinson D.M. (2003) Developing Gaia theory: a response to the criticisms of Kirchner and Volk. Climatic Change 58, 1-12.

Lenton, T. M. (1998).
Gaia and natural selection.
Nature 394: 439-447.

Staley, M. (2002).
Darwinian Selection Leads to Gaia.
J. theor. Biol. 218, 35-46.

Watson, A. J. (1999).
Coevolution of the Earth's environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle.
In: James Hutton - Present and Future (eds. G. Y. Craig and J. H. Hull). Geological Society, London, 75-88.

Wilkinson D.M. (1999).
Is Gaia really conventional ecology?
Oikos 84: 533-536.

Wilkinson D.M. (1999).
Gaia and Natural selection.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14, 256-257.

Wilkinson D.M. (2004) Homeostatic Gaia: an ecologists perspective on the possibility of regulation. In; Miller, J. et al (eds) Scientists debate Gaia: the next century. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. pp 71-76.

# Information Technology

Roadknight, C., Marshall, I., and Vearer, D.
"File popularity characterisation."
Second Workshop on Internet Server Performance in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 1999. (postscript)

# Physiology

Koeslag, J. H., P. T. Saunders, et al. (1997).
Glucose homeostasis with infinite gain: further lessons from the Daisyworld parable?
Journal of Endocrinology 154: 187-192. (abstract) (pdf)

Koeslag, J. H., Saunders, P. T., and Wessels, J. A. (1999).
The chromogranins and the counter-regulatory hormones: do they make homeostatic sense?
Journal of Physiology 517.3, 643-649.

Riggs, D. S. (1970).
Control Theory and Physiological Feedback Mechanisms.
The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore.

Saunders, P. T., Koeslag, J. H., and Wessels, J. A. (1998).
Integral Rein Control in Physiology.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 194, 163-173.

Saunders, P.T., Koeslag, J.H. & Wessels, J.A. (2000).
Integral rein control in physiology II: A general model.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 206, 211-220.

Useful Texts

Ashby, W. R. (1956).
An Introduction to Cybernetics.
Chapman & Hall, London. (pdf)

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Crane, R.H., (1999).
The Earth System.
Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 350 pp.

McGuffie, K., and Henderson-Sellers, A. (1997).
A Climate Modelling Primer.
John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Schellnhuber, H. J., and Wenzel, V. (1998).
Earth System Analysis. Integrating Science for Sustainability.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

 

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