Publications

   
 
  Journal & Conference Papers
  Dyke J. G. (in prep) Design for a Biosphere.
   
  Williams H., Bohn K., Bruggeman J., Buitenhuis E. T., Clark J. R., Dutkiewicz S., Dyke J. G., Geider R. J., Hellweger F. L., Menge D. N. L., Mock T. and Lenton T. (submitted) Modelling evolutionary and ecological processes in biogeochemical processes, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
   
  Dyke J. G., Gans F., Kleidon A. (in review) Assessing life's effects on the interior dynamics of planet Earth using non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Earth System Dynamics.
   
  Reu B., Proulx R., Bohn K., Dyke J. G., Kleidon A., Pavlick R. Schmidtlein, S. (in press) The role of climate and plant trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns, Global Ecology and Biogeography.
   
  Dyke J. G. (2010) The Daisystat: A model to explore multidimensional homeostasis, Proceedings of Artificial Life XII: Twelth Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. MIT Press. Download PDF
   
  Dyke J. G. & Kleidon A. (2010) The maximum entropy production principle: It's theoretical foundations and applications to the Earth, Entropy.12, 613-630, doi: 10.3390/e12030613
   
  McDonald-Gibson J., Dyke J. G., Di Paolo E., Harvey I. R. (2008). Environmental Regulation Can Arise Under Minimal Assumptions, Journal of Theoretical Biology 251(4) 653-666 Download PDF
   
  Wood, A. J., G. J. Ackland, J. G. Dyke, H. T. P. Williams, and T. M. Lenton (2008), Daisyworld: A review, Reviews of Geophysics, 46, RG1001, doi:10.1029/2006RG000217. Download PDF
   

 

Dyke J. G., McDonald-Gibson J., Di Paolo E., Harvey I. R. (2007). Increasing complexity increases stability in a self regulating ecosystem. Proceedings of IXth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF

   
  McGregor S., Virgo N., Dyke J. G. (2006). A Critical Reappraisal of the Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition.Proceedings of IEEE-Alife'07 - the first IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Hawaii, USA.
   
  Dyke, J. G. & Harvey, I. R. (2006) Pushing up the Daisies. Proceedings of Alife X: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. pp 426-431. MIT press. Download PDF.
   

 

Dyke, J. G. & Harvey, I. R. (2005) Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: from Daisyworld to Phototaxis. Proceedings of VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2005, Capcarrere, M., Freitas, A., Bentley, J., Johnson, C. and Timmis, J. (eds), pp 332-342. Download: PDF.  

   
  Abstracts
  Dyke J. G. (2010) How does surface life affect interior geology? EGU, Vienna. Austria.
   
  Bohn K. & Dyke J. G. (2010) How important are inter-species interactions in determining global species diversity, abundances and carbon fluxes to and from vegetation? Terrabites 1st Symposium, Hamburg, Germany.
   
Reu B., Proulx R., Bohn K., Pavlick R., Dyke J. G. , Kleidon A., Schmidtlein (2009)  Understanding plant functional traits from constraints and tradeoffs - from process to patterns TRY / BBS workshop, Cape Town, October 2009.
Reu B., Proulx R., Bohn K., Pavlick R., Dyke J. G. , Kleidon A., Schmidtlein (2009)  Understanding plant geography from climatic constraints and plant trade-offs (poster) Diversitas open science conference, Cape Town, October 2009.
Kleidon A., Arens S., Dyke J. G., Gans F., Miller L., Schymansk S.  Do continental processes within the global rock cycle evolve to a state of Maximum Entropy Production? Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, June 2009.
  Dyke J. G. (2009) Artificial life, the universe and everything. Xth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL2009, Budapest.
   
  Dyke J. G. (2009) Why Gaia Theory is a load of hot air. Xth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL2009, Budapest.
   
  Kleidon A., Dyke J. G. Gans F., Miller L., Porada P., Schymanski S. (2009) Quantifying the irreversibility of land change surface processes and their sensitivity to global change. iLEAPS / GEWEX, Melbourne, Australia.
   
  Theses
  Dyke, J. G. (2009) The Daisyworld Control System, DPhil (Phd), Informatics, Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems Group, University of Sussex, UK.
   
  Dyke, J. G. (2005) Homeostasis for free? Investigating temperature regulation in Daisyworld via the Maximum Entropy Production Principle, MSc Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex, UK.