How are daisies on Daisyworld able to regulate the hypothetical planet's temperature?

What will be an ideal response?


The more daisies, the more sunlight reflects off their white petals, the less sunlight absorbed, and finally the cooler the surface temperature. In sum, as daisy coverage increases, temperature decreases. The stable equilibrium state is below the growth optimum.

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