Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
Synthesis and Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-851571-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This volume provides the first comprehensive and balanced coverage of recent empirical and theoretical research on this question. It reviews the evidence, provides bases for the resolution of the debate that has divided scientists on these issues, and offers perspectives on how current knowledge can be extended to other ecosystems, other organisms and other spatial and temporal scales. It cuts across the traditional division between community ecology and ecosystem ecology, and announces a new ecological synthesis in which the dynamics of biological diversity and the biogeochemical functioning of the Earth system are merged.
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Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
- Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
- Geowissenschaften Geologie Umweltgeologie, Geoökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- A. Introduction
- 2: Mooney: The debate on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- B. Core areas of debate: biodiversity and ecosystem processes in grassland ecosystems
- 4: Hector, Loreau and Schmid: Biodiversity manipulation experiments: studies replicated at multiple sites
- 5: Huston and McBride: Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls of ecosystem processes
- 6: Schmid et al: The design and analysis of biodiversity experiments
- C. New perspectives on ecosystem stability
- 8: Hughes et al: Do species interactions buffer environmental variation (in theory)?
- 9: de Ruiter et al: Biodiversity and stability in soil ecosystems: patterns, processes and the effects of disturbance
- 10: Levine, Kennedy and Naeem: Neighbourhood-scale effects of species diversity on biological invasions and their relation to community patterns
- D. Extending the scope to other systems
- 12: Emmerson and Huxham: How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate?
- 13: Rafaelli et al: Multitrophic dynamics and ecosystem processes
- 14: Wardle and van der Putten: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the aboveground-belowground linkages
- 15: Mikola, Bardgett and Hedlund: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil decomposer food webs
- 16: van der Heijden and Cornelissen: The critical role of plant-microbe interactions on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: arbuscular mycorrhizal associations as an example
- E. Extending the scope to other dimensions
- 18: Bengtsson et al: Slippin' and slidin' between the scales: the scaling components of the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations
- 19: Vendermeer et al: Effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning in managed ecosystems
- F. Synthesis
