Michel Loreau / Shahid Naeem / Pablo Inchausti (eds.)

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Synthesis and Perspectives
Herausgeber: Inchausti, Pablo; Naeem, Shahid; Loreau, Michel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780198515715
• ISBN-10: 0198515715
• Artikelnr.: 22104140

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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