Functional Consequences of Biodiversity
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Adaptive radiation
Biodiversity
Biodiversity loss
Biogeochemical cycle
Biological interaction
Biomass (ecology)
Biome
Biotope
Carbon fixation
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Competition
Conservation biology
Decomposer
Density dependence
Diversity index
Ecological model of competition
Ecological niche
Ecological pyramid
Ecological stability
Ecological succession
Ecology
Ecophysiology
Ecosystem
Ecosystem ecology
Ecosystem engineer
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem model
Ecosystem services
Environmental factor
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Evolution
Evolutionary ecology
Field experiment
Functional response
Fungicide
Generalist and specialist species
Genetic diversity
Genetic variability
Herbivore
Host (biology)
Immobilization (soil science)
Invasive species
Keystone species
Meta-analysis
Microbial ecology
Monoculture
Mutualism (biology)
Natural resource
Niche differentiation
Nutrient
Observational study
Opportunity cost
Pest (organism)
Plant
Plant community
Plant ecology
Plant functional type
Plant strategies
Population ecology
Population viability analysis
Production function
Soil
Soil carbon
Soil organic matter
Spatial ecology
Species diversity
Species richness
Storage effect
Taxonomy (biology)
Trophic cascade
Trophic level
Viability theory
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- ISBN 9780691088228
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Does biodiversity influence how ecosystems function? Might diversity loss affect the ability of ecosystems to deliver services of benefit to humankind? Ecosystems provide food, fuel, fiber, and drinkable water, regulate local and regional climate, and recycle needed nutrients, among other things. An ecosyste's ability to sustain functioning may depend on the number of species residing in the ecosystem--its biological diversity--but this has been a controversial hypothesis. There are many unanswered questions about how and why changes in biodiversity could alter ecosystem functioning. This volume, written by top researchers, synthesizes empirical studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and extends that knowledge using a novel and coordinated set of models and theoretical approaches. These experimental and theoretical analyses demonstrate that functioning usually increases with biodiversity, but also reveals when and under what circumstances other relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning might occur.
It also accounts for apparent changes in diversity-functioning relationships that emerge over time in disturbed ecosystems, thereby addressing a major controversy in the field. The volume concludes with a blueprint for moving beyond small-scale studies to regional ones--a move of enormous significance for policy and conservation but one that will entail tackling some of the most fundamental challenges in ecology. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Juan Armesto, Claudia Neuhauser, Andy Hector, Clarence Lehman, Peter Kareiva, Sharon Lawler, Peter Chesson, Teri Balser, Mary K. Firestone, Robert Holt, Michel Loreau, Johannes Knops, David Wedin, Peter Reich, Shahid Naeem, Bernhard Schmid, Jasmin Joshi, and Felix Schlapfer.
Ann P. Kinzig is Assistant Professor of Biology at Anzona State University. Stephen Pacala is Frederick D. Petrie Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. G. David Tilman is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota and the author or editor of several books, including Spatial Ecology.
