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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 September 2002
- ISBN 9780198515715
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 245x190x17 mm
- Weight 575 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 90 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Determining the scientific relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has now emerged as one of the most important challenges in ecological and environmental science. This book provides a timely synthesis and critical assessment in order to generate a consensus on the main issues involved and stimulate new perspectives for future research.
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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.
This volume will stand as a benchmark for the field and should be on every ecologist's bookshelf
Table of Contents:
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the emergence of a synthetic framework
The debate on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Plant diversity and composition: effects on productivity and nutrient dynamics of experimental grasslands
Biodiversity manipulation experiments: studies replicated at multiple sites
Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls of ecosystem processes
The design and analysis of biodiversity experiments
A new look at the relationship between stability and diversity
Do species interactions buffer environmental variation (in theory)?
Biodiversity and stability in soil ecosystems: patterns, processes and the effects of disturbance
Neighbourhood-scale effects of species diversity on biological invasions and their relation to community patterns
Contributions of aquatic model systems to our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate?
Multitrophic dynamics and ecosystem processes
Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the aboveground-belowground linkages
Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil decomposer food webs
The critical role of plant-microbe interactions on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: arbuscular mycorrhizal associations as an example
Species diversity, functional diversity and ecosystem functioning
Slippin' and slidin' between the scales: the scaling components of the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations
Effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning in managed ecosystems
Perspectives and challenges
