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1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Life Regulates the Atmosphere's Greenhouse Gas Levels and the Earth's Temperature -- 2.1 Terminology -- 2.2 The Carbon Cycle and Negative Feedback Loops -- 2.3 Life Is the Main Regulator of Atmospheric Carbon -- 2.4 Life Conserves Carbon for the Biosphere, Even as It Regulates It -- 2.5 Life Likely Regulates Temperature With Negative Feedback and Dimethyl Sulfide |
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2.6 Coccolithophores May Regulate Temperature Through Negative Feedback -- 2.7 Organisms Regulate Silicon, Helping Life -- 2.8 Biology Might Aid Life By Regulating the Ocean's Salt Content -- 2.9 Venus and Human Impacts Show That Organisms Have Profoundly Helped Life By Regulating Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases and Temperature -- 2.10 The Detrimental Impacts of High Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels On Life Are Not Limited to Temperature Effects -- 2.11 Did Biology Create Optimal Conditions for Life? -- 2.12 Conclusion -- References |
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3 Organisms Created High Oxygen Levels, Which Allowed Complex Life to Evolve and Diversify -- 3.1 Life Increased Earth's Oxygen Level in the Great Oxidation Event -- 3.2 High Oxygen Levels Diversified Minerals and Increased the Number of Amino Acids Used By Life. Both of These Increased Biodiversity -- 3.3 Life Caused Further Rises in Oxygen Levels After the GOE -- 3.4 The Amazon River and Phytoplankton Together Produce Great Quantities of Oxygen -- 3.5 Life's Production of High Oxygen Levels Helps Diversity in Many Ways Besides Providing an Energy Source.. |
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3.6 Oxygen and Fire Are Regulated By Negative Feedback Mediated By Life -- 3.7 Life Stabilized Atmospheric Oxygen Levels for the Last 350 Million Years With Imperfect Negative Feedback -- 3.8 The GOE May Have Caused a Glaciation, But Almost Surely Not a Mass Extinction -- 3.9 Anoxygenic and Oxygenic Photosynthesis and the Use By Life of What Is Available -- 3.10 Life Coevolved With the Atmosphere -- Note -- References -- 4 Species Profoundly Affect the Evolution of Other Species: Coevolution Is Fundamentally Important and Was Involved in... -- References |
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5 In Ecological Succession, Communities Create Favorable Environmental Conditions for Succeeding, Usually More Diverse and Complex, Communities -- References -- 6 Life Is the Main Creator of Soil, a Diverse Ecosystem That Benefits Life in the Soil and Above It -- Note -- References -- 7 Eukaryotes Are Complex Ecosystems With Diverse Microbiomes, Showing the Importance... -- 7.1 All Eukaryotes Are Ecosystems With Diverse Microbiomes, With a Great Deal of Symbiosis and Commensalism -- 7.2 Unicellular Eukaryotes Have Microbiomes -- 7.3 About the Microbiome |
| Summary |
This book presents a hypothesis and evidence that organisms promote and ecosystems maximize biodiversity. All species have a net positive effect on their environment, other species, and diversity |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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7.4 The Microbiome Aids Digestion and Absorption, and the Digestive System |
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Biodiversity.
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Biotic communities.
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Coevolution.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Macroevolution.
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Symbiosis.
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Biodiversity
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Biotic communities
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Coevolution
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Evolution (Biology)
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Macroevolution
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Symbiosis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000826371 |
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1000826376 |
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