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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michel Loreau (, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) , Shahid Naeem (, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA) , Pablo Inchausti (, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.575kg ISBN: 9780198515715ISBN 10: 0198515715 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 19 September 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsA. 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 challengesReviewsThis 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 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 Author InformationMichel 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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