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Biodiversity change is one of the most controversial and high profile areas of ecological research. This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications and applications to some of the most pressing environmental issues facing humans today.
Shahid Naeem is Professor of Ecology and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University. Dr. Naeem pioneered experimental tests of the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function (Naeem et al. 1994) and has been a leader in the field. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis Report (Duraiappah and Naeem 2005), co-edited Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives (Loreau et al. 2002) and has published more that 50 peer-reviewed research papers. Daniel Bunker is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey, USA). Dr. Bunker in co-director of the BioMERGE project and the TraitNet project. Dr. Bunker focuses on understanding the effects of global climate change on species diversity and composition, and the concomitant effects on ecosystem functioning and services. Additional research foci include functional diversity, trait based ecology, and ecoinformatics. Andy Hector is a community ecologist interested in the links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Andy gained a BSc. (Honours) in Natural Environmental Science from the University of Sheffield in 1991 and received his PhD from Imperial College London in 1996. He did his first post-doc as scientific coordinator of the BIODEPTH project and later held research fellowships at the Centre for Population Biology funded by NERC and the Royal Society. In 2003 he was appointed Assistant Professor within the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich where he is currently undergoing tenure review for a full Professorship. Michel Loreau is Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He has won several scientific prizes, including the International Ecology Institute Prize, the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific Research (France), and the Agathon De Potter and Max Poll Prizes of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He has been member of numerous national and international scientific committees. In particular, he chaired the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS, the international programme of biodiversity science, the International Steering Committee of the consultative process towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB), and the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation programme LINKECOL. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications in the fields of theoretical ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, population ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Charles Perrings is Professor of Environmental Economics, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. He has served as President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and as Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of Diversitas. He is the 2008 winner of the Kenneth E. Boulding Prize for ecological economics. He has authored or edited 11 books and monographs on the economics of the environment, labor and education, and has published over 100 scientific papers on environmental, resource and ecological economics; the resilience and stability of dynamical ecological-economic systems; and the economics of biodiversity change. He has been engaged in the various processes to follow-up the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the IMOSEB consultation with the establishment an international body on biodiversity change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Show moreBiodiversity change is one of the most controversial and high profile areas of ecological research. This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications and applications to some of the most pressing environmental issues facing humans today.
Shahid Naeem is Professor of Ecology and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University. Dr. Naeem pioneered experimental tests of the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function (Naeem et al. 1994) and has been a leader in the field. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis Report (Duraiappah and Naeem 2005), co-edited Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives (Loreau et al. 2002) and has published more that 50 peer-reviewed research papers. Daniel Bunker is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey, USA). Dr. Bunker in co-director of the BioMERGE project and the TraitNet project. Dr. Bunker focuses on understanding the effects of global climate change on species diversity and composition, and the concomitant effects on ecosystem functioning and services. Additional research foci include functional diversity, trait based ecology, and ecoinformatics. Andy Hector is a community ecologist interested in the links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Andy gained a BSc. (Honours) in Natural Environmental Science from the University of Sheffield in 1991 and received his PhD from Imperial College London in 1996. He did his first post-doc as scientific coordinator of the BIODEPTH project and later held research fellowships at the Centre for Population Biology funded by NERC and the Royal Society. In 2003 he was appointed Assistant Professor within the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich where he is currently undergoing tenure review for a full Professorship. Michel Loreau is Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He has won several scientific prizes, including the International Ecology Institute Prize, the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific Research (France), and the Agathon De Potter and Max Poll Prizes of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He has been member of numerous national and international scientific committees. In particular, he chaired the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS, the international programme of biodiversity science, the International Steering Committee of the consultative process towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB), and the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation programme LINKECOL. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications in the fields of theoretical ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, population ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Charles Perrings is Professor of Environmental Economics, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. He has served as President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and as Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of Diversitas. He is the 2008 winner of the Kenneth E. Boulding Prize for ecological economics. He has authored or edited 11 books and monographs on the economics of the environment, labor and education, and has published over 100 scientific papers on environmental, resource and ecological economics; the resilience and stability of dynamical ecological-economic systems; and the economics of biodiversity change. He has been engaged in the various processes to follow-up the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the IMOSEB consultation with the establishment an international body on biodiversity change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Show morePreface
Introduction, Background, and Meta-analyses
1: Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau,
Charles Perrings: Introduction: The Ecological and Social
Implications of Changing Biodiversity: An overview of a decade of
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research
2: Bernhard Schmid, Patricia Balvanera, Bradley J. Cardinale,
Jasmin Godbold, Andrea B. Pfisterer, David Raffaelli, Martin Solan,
Diane S. Srivastava: Consequences of Species Loss for Ecosystem
Functioning: Meta-analyses of data from biodiversity
experiments
3: Martin Solan, Jasmin A. Godbold, Amy Symstad, Dan F.B. Flynn,
Daniel E. Bunker: Biodiversity-ecosystem Function Research and
Biodiversity Futures: Early bird catches the worm or a day late and
a dollar short?
Natural Science Foundations
4: Owen L Petchey, Eoin O'Gorman, Dan F.B. Flynn: A Functional
Guide to Functional Diversity Measures
5: J. Emmett Duffy, Diane S. Srivastava, Jennie McLaren, Mahesh
Sankaran, Martin Solan, John Griffin, Mark Emmerson, Kate E. Jones:
Forecasting Decline in Ecosystem Services Under Realistic Scenarios
of Extinction
6: John Griffin, Eoin O'Gorman, Mark Emmerson, Stuart Jenkins,
Alexandra-Maria Klein, Michel Loreau, Amy Symstad: Biodiversity and
the Stability of Ecosystem Functioning
7: Andy Hector, Thomas Bell, John Connolly, John Finn, Jeremy Fox,
Laura Kirwan, Michel Loreau, Jennie McLaren, Bernhard Schmid,
Alexandra Weigelt: The Analysis of Biodiversity Experiments: From
pattern toward mechanism
8: Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Diane S. Srivastava,
Michel Loreau, Matthew Thomas, Mark Emmerson: Towards a Food-web
Perspective on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
9: Thomas Bell, Mark O. Gessner, Robert I. Griffiths, Jennie
McLaren, Peter J. Morin, Marcel van der Heijden, Wim van der
Putten: Microbial Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Under
Controlled Conditions and in the Wild
10: Andrew Gonzalez, Nicolas Mouquet, Michel Loreau: Biodiversity
as Spatial Insurance: The effects of habitat fragmentation and
dispersal on ecosystem functioning
Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing
11: Sandra Díaz, David A. Wardle, Andy Hector: Incorporating
Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives
12: Justin Wright, Amy Symstad, James M. Bullock, Katharina
Engelhardt, Louise Jackson, Emily Bernhardt: Restoring Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Function: Will an integrated approach improve
results?
13: Louise Jackson, Todd Rosenstock, Matthew Thomas, Justin Wright,
Amy Symstad: Managed Ecosystems: Biodiversity and ecosystem
functions in landscapes modified by human use
14: Alexandra-Maria Klein, Christine Müller, Patrick Hoehn, Claire
Kremen: Understanding the Role of Species Richness for Crop
Pollination Services
15: Richard S. Ostfeld, Matthew Thomas, Felicia Keesing:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Perspectives on disease
16: Katharina Engelhardt, Amy Symstad, Anne-Helene Prieur-Richard,
Matthew Thomas, Daniel E. Bunker: Opening Communities to
Colonization: The impacts of invaders on biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning
17: C. Perrings, S. Baumgärtner, W.A. Brock, K. Chopra, M. Conte,
C. Costello, A. Duraiappah, A.P. Kinzig, U. Pascual, S. Polasky, J.
Tschirhart, A. Xepapadeas: The Economics of Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services
18: E.B. Barbier, S. Baumgärtner, K. Chopra, C. Costello, A.
Duraiappah, R. Hassan, A. Kinzig, M. Lehmann, U. Pascual, S.
Polasky, C. Perrings: The Valuation of Ecosystem Services
19: W.A. Brock, D. Finnoff, A.P. Kinzig, U. Pascual, C. Perrings,
J. Tschirhart, A. Xepapadeas: Modeling Biodiversity And Ecosystem
Services in Coupled Ecological-Economic Systems
Summary and Synthesis
20: Shahid Naeem and Daniel E. Bunker: TraitNet: Furthering
biodiversity research through the curation, discovery, and sharing
of species trait data
21: Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau,
Charles Perrings: Can We Predict the Effects of Global Change on
Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Functioning?
References
Index
Shahid Naeem is Professor of Ecology and Chair, Department of
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University.
Dr. Naeem pioneered experimental tests of the effects of
biodiversity on ecosystem function (Naeem et al. 1994) and has been
a leader in the field. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis Report (Duraiappah and Naeem
2005), co-edited Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis
and Perspectives
(Loreau et al. 2002) and has published more that 50 peer-reviewed
research papers.
Daniel Bunker is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology (Newark, New Jersey, USA). Dr. Bunker in co-director
of the BioMERGE project and the TraitNet project. Dr. Bunker
focuses on understanding the effects of global climate change on
species diversity and composition, and the concomitant effects on
ecosystem functioning and services. Additional research foci
include functional diversity, trait based ecology, and
ecoinformatics.
Andy Hector is a community ecologist interested in the links
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Andy gained a BSc.
(Honours) in Natural Environmental Science from the University of
Sheffield in 1991 and received his PhD from Imperial College London
in 1996. He did his first post-doc as scientific coordinator of the
BIODEPTH project and later held research fellowships at the Centre
for Population Biology funded by NERC and the Royal Society. In
2003 he was appointed Assistant
Professor within the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the
University of Zurich where he is currently undergoing tenure review
for a full Professorship. Michel Loreau is Full Professor and Tier
1 Canada
Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University
(Montreal, Canada). He has won several scientific prizes, including
the International Ecology Institute Prize, the Silver Medal of the
National Centre for Scientific Research (France), and the Agathon
De Potter and Max Poll Prizes of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He
has been member of numerous national and international scientific
committees. In particular, he chaired the Scientific Committee of
DIVERSITAS, the international programme
of biodiversity science, the International Steering Committee of
the consultative process towards an International Mechanism of
Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB), and the Steering
Committee
of the European Science Foundation programme LINKECOL. He is the
author of over 200 scientific publications in the fields of
theoretical ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology,
population ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Charles Perrings is
Professor of Environmental Economics, School of Life Sciences,
Arizona State University. He has served as President of the
International Society for Ecological Economics and as Vice Chair of
the Scientific Committee of Diversitas. He is the 2008
winner of the Kenneth E. Boulding Prize for ecological economics.
He has authored or edited 11 books and monographs on the economics
of the environment, labor and education, and has published over
100
scientific papers on environmental, resource and ecological
economics; the resilience and stability of dynamical
ecological-economic systems; and the economics of biodiversity
change. He has been engaged in the various processes to follow-up
the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the IMOSEB consultation
with the establishment an international body on biodiversity
change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (IPBES).
A very useful volume to anyone interested in ecosystem
functionality.
*Bulletin of the British Ecological Society*
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