Overview

This volume focuses on the integration of population and ecosystem ecology - an approach that offers vast potential for improving our understanding of the complexities of nature and the management of environmental problems. The editors have brought together a group of experts to explore diverse aspects of linking species and ecosystem perspectives - theoretical, empirical and pragmatic. These include: processes that range from a local to a planetary scale; the role of organisms as ecosystem engineers; the use of ecological flow chains to link population and ecosystem processes; numerous examples of the influence of species on ecosystem processes and vice versa; a unique blend of problems and processes drawn from marine; freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems; problems of ""species redundancy"" in ecosystem processes; stoichiometric constraints on species interactions; and scaling and aggregation problems. ""Linking Species and Ecosystems"" establishes conceptual frameworks for the rigorous study of interactions between species and ecosystems, it points to still-unanswered questions, and it identifies future research directions. Integration of ecology with its implications for teaching, research and society are central to the book. This volume should serve as a resource for ecology researchers, students, and environmental managers and should stimulate debate on the future integration of the field. This book should be of interest to ecologists - graduate students and established researchers; biology; zoology; ecology; evolutionary biology; integrative or organismal biology; entomology; plant science; forestry; wildlife management; and environmental studies.

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Author:   Clive G. Jones ,  John H. Lawton
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1995 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.660kg
ISBN:  

9780412048012

ISBN 10:   0412048019
Pages:   387
Publication Date:   30 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Issues.- 1. Why Link Species and Ecosystems? A Perspective from Ecosystem Ecology.- 2. Organisms and Species as Complex Adaptive Systems: Linking the Biology of Populations with the Physics of Ecosystems.- Scope.- 3. Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineers: Control of the Sediment Fabric, Inter-Individual Interactions, and Material Fluxes.- 4. Biogeochemical Processes and Marine Benthic Community Structure: Which Follows Which?.- 5. Marine Snow: What it is and How it Affects Ecosystem Functioning.- 6. Floods, Food Chains, and Ecosystem Processes in Rivers.- 7. Population Variability in Experimental Ecosystems.- 8. How Important are Consumer Species to Ecosystem Functioning?.- 9. Linking Tree Population Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Processes.- 10. Soil Organisms as Engineers: Microsite Modulation of Macroscale Processes.- 11. Soil Fauna: Linking Different Levels of the Ecological Hierarchy.- 12. Beaver as Engineers: Influences on Biotic and Abiotic Characteristics of Drainage Basins.- 13. Atmospheric Oxygen and the Biosphere.- Approaches.- 14. Linking Species and Ecosystems: Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers.- 15. Top-Level Carnivores and Ecosystem Effects: Questions and Approaches.- 16. Food Webs in Soil: An Interface Between Population and Ecosystem Ecology.- 17. Unifying Ecological Subdisciplines with Ecosystem Food Webs.- 18. Coupling the Dynamics of Species and Materials.- 19. Exploring Aggregation in Space and Time.- 20. Aggregation of Species Properties for Biogeochemical Modeling: Empirical Results.- 21. Functional Redundancy and Process Aggregation: Linking Ecosystems to Species.- 22. Species Compensation and Complementarity in Ecosystem Function.- 23. Elemental Stoichiometry of Species in Ecosystems.- 24. Species, Nitrogen, and Grassland Dynamics: The Constraints of Stuff.- 25. Relationships between the Energetics of Species and Large-Scale Species Richness.- 26. Linking Species and Ecosystems: Where’s Darwin?.- 27. Ecological Flow Chains and Ecological Systems: Concepts for Linking Species and Ecosystem Perspectives.- Context.- 28. The Relevance of Ecology: The Societal Context and Disciplinary Implications of Linkages Across Levels of Ecological Organization.- 29. Linking Species and Ecosystems Through Training of Students.- 30. Linking Species and Communities to Ecosystem Management: A Perspective from the Experimental Lakes Experience.- 31. Why Link Species Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Resource Management?.- References.

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...this is an excellent book and an important contribution in bridging two major sub-disciplines of ecology: population /community ecology and ecosystem ecology. Webber State University

...this is an excellent book and an important contribution in bridging two major sub-disciplines of ecology: population /community ecology and ecosystem ecology. Webber State University

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