Sinopsis de Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspectives

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the 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 comprehensive and balanced coverage of 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.The book aims to cut 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...

Otros libros de Tecnologia medioambiental

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  Agenda local 21 de Punta Umbría.
  Autor: Sin autor.
  ISBN: 978-84-96373-03-7.
  Editorial: Oxford University Press
  
  
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  Agroecología 2007.
  Autor: Egea, José María.
  ISBN: .
  Editorial: Oxford University Press
  
  
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  Atlas básico de ecología.
  Autor: Sin autor.
  ISBN: 978-84-342-2466-7.
  Editorial: Oxford University Press
  
  
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  Bases ecológicas para la recolección, almacenamiento y germinación de semillas de uso forestal de la Comunidad Valencian.
  Autor: García-Fayos Poveda, Patricio.
  ISBN: 978-84-482-2934-4.
  Editorial: Oxford University Press
  
  
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  Biofilms fluvials: metabolisme heterotròfic i autotròfic en rius mediterranis.
  Autor: Romani, A..
  ISBN: 978-84-7283-599-3.
  Editorial: Oxford University Press