For example, http://www.jameslovelock.org/page31.html In this 1983 paper by Lovelock and Watson modeling Daisyworld, in equations (10) through (14), the paper considers the non zero steady state solutions of the system (when the rate at which white and black daisies are colonizing is zero). From this, the authors deduce that the local temperatures of the white and black daisies stay constant, regardless of initial conditions.
Why are we studying the steady state solutions in the first place? Why was it necessary to consider the steady state solutions to realize the local temperatures of the white and black daisies stay constant over time? Does this mean that if the rate at which the daisies colonized was not zero, then the Daisyworld planet would not experience a planetary temperature stabilization?