Authors:
Naeem, S., D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings (eds.)
Publication Date:
2009
Abstract/Summary:
n an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The first section summarizes the development of the basic science and provides a meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several biodiversity and ecosystem functioning hypotheses. The second section describes the natural science foundations of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, including: quantifying functional diversity, the development of the field into a predictive science, effects of stability and complexity, methods to quantify mechanisms by which diversity affects functioning, the importance of trophic structure, microbial ecology, and spatial dynamics. The third section takes research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning further than it has ever gone into the human dimension.
Resource Type:
Book
Source:
Oxford Scholarship Online
Link:
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547951.001.0001/acprof-9780199547951