Timothy Lenton
Lecture 1
From Revolutions that made the Earth (OUP): Playing Gaia
From NATURE |VOL 394 | 30 JULY 1998: Gaia and natural selection
From Oikos 116: 1087|1105,2007 doi: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15721.x: The Flask model: emergence of nutrient-recycling microbial ecosystems and their disruption by environment-altering ‘rebel’ organisms
From 10432–10437|PNAS|July 29,2008|vol. 105|no.30| www.pnas.org/cgi/ doi/10.1073/ pnas.0800244105: Environmental regulation in a network of simulated microbial ecosystems
From Oikos 000: 001–014 2010 doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18127.x: Evolutionary regime shifts in simulated ecosystems
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Lecture 2
From Revolutions that made the Earth (OUP): The oxigen revolution; The trial of the oxygen poisoners; The Great Oxidation
From Vol 443|12 October 2006|doi:10.1038/nature05169: Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation; Supplementary Material
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Lecture 3
From Revolutions that made the Earth (OUP): The complexity revolution; When did eukaryotes evolve?; The not-so-boring billion; The Neoproterozoic;
From GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 31, L05202, doi:10.1029/2003GL018802, 2004: Biotic enhancement of weathering, atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Neoproterozoic;
From Geobiology (2007) DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00115.x: Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’ glaciations and the evolution of altruism
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Lecture 4
From Revolutions that made the Earth (OUP): A new revolution?; The origins of us; Review; Where next?
From Phil Trans A (paper in press): Early warning of climate tipping points from critical slowing down: comparing methods to improve robustness
From 1786–1793|PNAS|February 12, 2008|vol. 105|no. 6| www.pnas.org/ cgi/ doi/ 10.1073 /pnas.0705414105: Tipping elements in the Earth’s climate system
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