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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Synthesis and Perspectives
Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, and Pablo Inchausti
308 pages
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numerous line figures
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246x189mm
978-0-19-851571-5
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Paperback
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19 September 2002
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- The first synthesis of the current debate on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- One of the hottest and most controversial topics in ecology and environmental science, and likely to remain so for several years
- Contributions from the leading names in the field
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.Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in ecology and conservation biology.
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Michel Loreau, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, Shahid Naeem, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA, and Pablo Inchausti, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Contributors:
Professor Michel Loreau, Dr Shahid Naeem, Dr Pablo Inchausti, Professor Harold Mooney, Professor David Tilman, Dr Andrew Hector, Dr Michael Huston, Dr Bernhard Schmid, Dr Jennifer Hughes, Dr Peter de Ruiter, Dr Jonathan Levine, Dr Owen Petchey, Dr Mark Emmerson, Professor David Raffaelli, Dr David Wardle, Dr Juha Mikola, Dr Marcel van
der Heijden, Dr David Hooper, Dr Jan Bengtsson, Dr John Vandermeer
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"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
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A. Introduction1: Naeem, Loreau, Inchausti: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the emergence of a synthetic framework
2: Mooney: The debate on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
B. Core areas of debate: biodiversity and ecosystem processes in grassland ecosystems3: Tilman et al: Plant diversity and composition: effects on productivity and nutrient dynamics of experimental grasslands
4: Hector, Loreau & Schmid: Biodiversity manipulation experiments: studies replicated at multiple sites
5: Huston & 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 stability7: Loreau et al: A new look at the relationship between stability and diversity
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 & Naeem: Neighbourhood-scale effects of species diversity on biological invasions and their relation to community patterns
D. Extending the scope to other systems11: Petchey et al: Contributions of aquatic model systems to our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
12: Emmerson & Huxham: How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate?
13: Rafaelli et al: Multitrophic dynamics and ecosystem processes
14: Wardle & van der Putten: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the aboveground-belowground linkages
15: Mikola, Bardgett & Hedlund: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil decomposer food webs
16: van der Heijden & 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 dimensions17: Hooper et al: Species diversity, functional diversity and ecosystem functioning
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. Synthesis20: Loreau, Naeem & Inchausti: Perspectives and challenges
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