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Biology On The Global Scale,, Nature Book Review
 









Excerpts: No object in the Solar System is more
 enigmatic than our own familiar planet. (...) most stunning of all, there is
	abundant life - a biosphere. We feel that these remarkable attributes are
 intimately connected, but are poorly informed about these relations and by
	what principles the system evolved. Earth dynamics, in particular the role of
 life, is hot stuff at present, Earth system science and geobiology being
	examples of new disciplines specifically concerned with this problem. So
	Vaclav Smil's overview of what we know about the biosphere is timely.
	
		
			
				
					
Biology On The Global
 				Scale, Peter Westbroek, Nature 419, 113 -
					114 (2002); doi:10.1038/419113a 
 				
Review of: The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution,
					Dynamics, and Change, by Vaclav Smil, MIT
					Press: 2002. 360 pp.


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