Testing gaia: The effect of life on earth's habitability and regulation

Climatic Change

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 409-422

  Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TESTING;

HABITABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAIA THEORY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0036129616     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014201801949     Document Type: Article

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