Environmental regulation in a network of simulated microbial ecosystems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 10432-10437

  Williams, Hywel T P ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gaia theory; Microbial ecology; Multilevel selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 48749128676     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800244105     Document Type: Article

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