Seven misconceptions regarding the Gaia hypothesis

Moody, David E.

doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0382-4

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“…This is an achievement that we appear on course to replicate. The 'natural' self-regulation, the existence of which is still disputed (Moody, 2012), of Gaia is not without its hiccups then, at least from the perspective of valuing biodiversity. The International Panel on Climate Change3 (IPCC, 2007(IPCC, , 2013 state that the effect of humanity in the last 263 years has been significant, with geoscientists naming this era of the planet's physical history the age of Humans (Steffen, Crutzen, & McNeill, 2007): We no longer live in the Holocene .…”

Section: Gaia Theory and The 'Crisis Of Perception'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such is the consternation surrounding the term 'Gaia', due to perceived teleological connotations, that scientists examining the possibilities of self-regulation of Earth often refer to themselves as Earth Systems scientists (Moody, 2012). Teleology is the ascribing of 'purpose' or intention to physical phenomena.…”

Section: Gaia Theory and The 'Crisis Of Perception'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Becoming animate in education: immanent materiality and outdoor learning for sustainability

Clarke¹,

Mcphie

2014

Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning

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Section: Gaia Theory and The 'Crisis Of Perception'mentioning

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Section: Gaia Theory and The 'Crisis Of Perception'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming animate in education: immanent materiality and outdoor learning for sustainability

Clarke¹,

Mcphie

2014

Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning

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“…This question prompts a further question of whether a biogenic SOA related change in environmental conditions to indirectly better defend against biotic attackers comes anywhere close to the expenditure in terms of VOCs and carbon used to create the change? If the costs of a HIPV based biosphere-atmosphere feedback system are higher than the improvement in fitness of the HIPV emitting individuals, selection of the trait does not fall in line with natural selection in a strict Darwinian sense (Moody, 2012), except perhaps in clonal plants with a population distributed across large areas (De Woody et al, 2009). …”

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Where do herbivore-induced plant volatiles go?

Holopainen¹,

Blande²

2013

Front. Plant Sci.

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Herbivore induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) are specific volatile organic compounds (VOC) that a plant produces in response to herbivory. Some HIPVs are only produced after damage, while others are also produced by intact plants, but in lower quantities. Among the known functions of HIPVs are within plant volatile signaling to activate systemic plant defenses, the priming and activation of defenses in neighboring plants and the attraction of natural enemies of herbivores. When released into the atmosphere a plant's control over the produced compounds ends. However, many of the HIPVs are highly reactive with atmospheric oxidants and their atmospheric life times could be relatively short, often only a few minutes. We summarise the potential ecological and atmospheric processes that involve the reaction products of HIPVs in their gaseous, liquid and solid secondary organic aerosol (SOA) forms, both in the atmosphere and after deposition on plant surfaces. A potential negative feedback loop, based on the reactions forming SOA from HIPVs and the associated stimulation of sun screening cloud formation is presented. This hypothesis is based on recent field surveys in the geographical areas facing the greatest degree of global warming and insect outbreaks. Furthermore, we discuss how these processes could benefit the individual plant or conspecifics that originally released the HIPVs into the atmosphere. Further ecological studies should aim to elucidate the possible reasons for biosynthesis of short-lived volatile compounds to have evolved as a response to external biotic damage to plants.

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“…Tanto Doolittle, como Kirchner y a partir de ellos prácticamente todos los científicos teóricos de Gaia y sus críticos (Kirchner 1989, 2003, Lenton 2004, Lovelock 2004, Wood y Coe 2007, Wood et al 2008, Weaver y Dike 2012) han empleado y siguen empleando erróneamente el término "teleológico" por excluirlo del ámbito cien-tífico e incluso por confundirlo con previsión y planificación consciente, algo que en principio no es aplicable a ningún organismo salvo el ser humano (Moody 2012 sigue remarcando este error recientemente). La huida en la biología del término teleológico llega a la paradoja de inventarse términos nuevos como teleonomía (Monod 1981) o a admitir que los "verdaderos" organismos son "como sí" tuvieran una teleología interna, pero que esta teleología es más un principio heurístico perteneciente más al mundo de las ideas que a un factor real de la naturaleza (Jax 2010, pág.…”

Section: Karnani Y Annila 2009) La Hipótesis "Geofisiológica" Idenunclassified

En defensa de una teoría Gaia orgánica

Carranza

2013

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Seven misconceptions regarding the Gaia hypothesis

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Becoming animate in education: immanent materiality and outdoor learning for sustainability

Becoming animate in education: immanent materiality and outdoor learning for sustainability

Where do herbivore-induced plant volatiles go?

En defensa de una teoría Gaia orgánica

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