Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Synthesis and Perspectives
Published on 19. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
308 pages
978-0-19-851571-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
This volume will stand as a benchmark for the field and should be on every ecologist's bookshelf * Ecology * Reading this text gives one the impression of being at the beginning of a considerable change in ecological thought and action. Its clarity of thought and scope suggest that, in common with very few other texts, it could well become a classic in its field ... Anybody who takes ecology seriously should read this book! * TEGnews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
90 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-851571-5 (9780198515715)
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Michel Loreau | Shahid Naeem | Pablo Inchausti
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Synthesis and Perspectives
Book
09/2002
Oxford University Press
€142.37
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Persons
Michel Loreau
Professor at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris
Belgian, born Uccle, Belgium 22/04/54
Shahid Naeem
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle
USA, born San Francisco, California, USA, 16/10/52
Pablo Inchausti
Researcher at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris
Italian, born Montivideo, Uraguay 21/03/64
Professor at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris
Belgian, born Uccle, Belgium 22/04/54
Shahid Naeem
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle
USA, born San Francisco, California, USA, 16/10/52
Pablo Inchausti
Researcher at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris
Italian, born Montivideo, Uraguay 21/03/64
Content
1. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: THE EMERGENCE OF A SYNTHETIC FRAMEWORK; 3. PLANT DIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION: EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY AND NUTRIENT DYNAMICS OF EXPERIMENTAL GRASSLANDS; 7. A NEW LOOK AT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STABILITY AND DIVERSITY; 11. CONTRIBUTIONS OF AQUATIC MODEL SYSTEMS TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 17. SPECIES DIVERSITY, FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 20. PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES