Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning : Synthesis and Perspectives (Enviromental Science)
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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.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives (Enviromental Science),Michel Loreau,Shahid Naeem,Pablo Inchausti,Oxford University Press, USA,0198515715,Earth Sciences - Geology,Environmental Science,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Applied ecology,Conservation of the environment,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Life Sciences | Ecology | Conservation Biology,Science / Ecology
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