Is Gaia really conventional ecology?

The Gaia theory of Lovelock has had a very unequal treatment by conventiona l ecologists, ranging from being ignored to qualified support, I suggest th at the phenomena described by Gaia are really capable of explanation by con ventional ecological ideas using a gene/individual unit of selection. This is analogous to the situation in ecology during the 1960's when many appare nt 'for the good of the species' adaptations were explained at lower levels of selection.