Ecology and evolutionary biology have focused on how organisms fit the environment. Less
attention has been given to the idea that organisms can also modify their environment, and …

The triumph of the Gaia hypothesis was to spot the extraordinary influence of Life on the
Earth.'Life'is the clade including all extant living beings, as distinct from 'life'the class of …

Recently postulated mechanisms and models can help explain the enduring 'Gaia'puzzle of
environmental regulation mediated by life. Natural selection can produce nutrient recycling …

In ecosystems, species interact with other species directly and through abiotic factors in
multiple ways, often forming complex networks of various types of ecological interaction. Out …

We present a new approach to exoplanet characterization using techniques from complexity
science, with potential applications to biosignature detection. This agnostic method makes …

For some time, there has been a slow but gradual rise in the average temperature of the
entire globe, a “global warming”, in fact, the result of human and natural processes that have …

The abundance of multistable dynamical systems calls for an appropriate quantification of
the respective stability of the (stable) states of such systems. Motivated by the concept of …

When searching for inhabited exoplanets, understanding the boundaries of the habitable
zone around the parent star is the key. If life can strongly influence its global environment …

Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019! In Gaia, Psyche and Deep
Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely …

Gaia theory, which describes the life–environment system of the Earth as stable and self-
regulating, has remained at the fringes of mainstream biological science owing to its …