dc.contributor.author | Lenton, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | Daines, SJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Dyke, JG | |
dc.contributor.author | Nicholson, AE | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, DM | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, HTP | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-02T09:40:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07-02 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recently postulated mechanisms and models can help explain the enduring ‘Gaia’ puzzle of environmental regulation mediated by life. Natural selection can produce nutrient recycling at local scales and regulation of heterogeneous environmental variables at ecosystem scales. However, global-scale environmental regulation involves a temporal and spatial decoupling of effects from actors that makes conventional evolutionary explanations problematic. Instead, global regulation can emerge by a process of ‘sequential selection’ in which systems that destabilize their environment are short-lived and result in extinctions and reorganizations until a stable attractor is found. Such persistence-enhancing properties can in turn increase the likelihood of acquiring further persistence-enhancing properties through ‘selection by survival alone’. Thus, Earth system feedbacks provide a filter for persistent combinations of macroevolutionary innovations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | T.M.L.
was supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. A.E.N. was supported by
Gaia Charity and the University of Exeter. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 02 July 2018. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.tree.2018.05.006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33337 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 02 July 2019 in compliance with publisher policy. | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | Gaia hypothesis | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental regulation | en_GB |
dc.subject | feedback | en_GB |
dc.subject | selection | en_GB |
dc.subject | biogeochemical cycling | en_GB |
dc.subject | climate | en_GB |
dc.title | Selection for Gaia across multiple scales | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0169-5347 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | en_GB |