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Global change in multispecies systems. Part 3 /
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Waltham, MA :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Advances in ecological research ;
v. forty eight. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Global Change in Multispecies Systems: Part 3; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface: Editorial Commentary: Monitoring, Manipulation and Modelling of Ecological Responses to Global Change in Multispec ... ; References; Chapter 1: Ecosystems and Their Services in a Changing World: An Ecological Perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. The Changing Concept of the Ecosystem; 2.1. The biophysical ecosystem; 2.2. The rise of ecosystem services; 2.3. Exploring the linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- 3. Putting the System Back in Ecosystem: Systems Analysis, Stocks and Flows3.1. Systems analysis and systems ecology; 3.2. Related concepts of natural capital; 3.3. A mass-balance approach to biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships; 3.4. Linking flows of services to the spatial extent of stocks; 3.5. Stocks and flows: An ecosystem health perspective; 3.6. An alternative approach: Emergy; 4. Issues of Scale; 4.1. Constraint 1. A need to achieve maximum plot replication over a restricted spatial extent
- 4.2. Constraint 2. Practical difficulties in measuring all variables at the appropriate scale4.3. Constraint 3. Time issues: Difficulties in maintaining larger plots for longer periods; 5. Extending Ecosystem Science; 5.1. The policy-appraisal arena; 5.2. Ecosystem science and economic analysis; 5.3. Ecosystem science and the qualitative social sciences; 5.4. Ecological science and interdisciplinarity; 5.5. Monitoring and evaluation of ecosystems in an interdisciplinary context; 5.6. Moving towards an integrated approach; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References
- Chapter 1: Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research1. Introduction; 1.1. Placing mesocosms in the context of ecological climate-change research; 1.2. Balancing control, replication, and realism in mesocosm experiments; 1.3. Development of the mesocosm approach in climate-change research; 2. Mesocosm Approaches in Different Habitats; 2.1. Marine, coastal, and estuarine ecosystems; 2.2. Freshwater mesocosms in lentic and lotic ecosystems; 2.3. Terrestrial mesocosms and Ecotrons; 3. What Do We Know So Far: Generalities or Idiosyncratic Effects?; 4. Future Directions
- 4.1. New drivers and experimental designs4.2. Future directions: New responses; 4.3. Future directions: Implementing a more strategic approach to experimental climate-change research; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix1. Photographic Credits for Fig. 1; Appendix2. Literature Search for Database Construction; Appendix3. Construction of the Database; Appendix4. Analysis of the Database; Appendix5. Database; Appendix6. List of Papers Used to Construct the Database; References (Note: see Appendix6 for publications that are included in the database)