Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing [electronic resource] : an ecological and economic perspective / edited by Shahid Naeem ... [et al.].

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245 0 0 |a Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing  |h [electronic resource] :  |b an ecological and economic perspective /  |c edited by Shahid Naeem ... [et al.]. 
246 1 4 |a Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, & human wellbeing 
260 |a Oxford :  |b OUP Oxford,  |c 2009. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xiv, 368 p., [4] p. of plates) :  |b ill. (some col.), maps 
490 0 |a Oxford biology 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-356) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction, Background, and Meta-analyses. Introduction: The Ecological and Social Implications of Changing Biodiversity. An overview of a decade of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research / Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector ... [et al.] -- Consequences of Species Loss for Ecosystem Functioning: Meta-analyses of data from biodiversity experiments / Bernhard Schmid, Patricia Balvanera, Bradley J. Cardinale ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity-ecosystem Function Research and Biodiversity Futures: Early bird catches the worm or a day late and a dollar short? / Martin Solan, Jasmin A. Godbold, Amy Symstad ... [et al.] -- Natural Science Foundations. A Functional Guide to Functional Diversity Measures / Owen L. Petchey, Eoin J. O'Gorman, and Dan F.B. Flynn -- Forecasting Decline in Ecosystem Services Under Realistic Scenarios of Extinction / J. Emmett Duffy, Diane S. Srivastava, Jennie McLaren ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity and the Stability of Ecosystem Functioning / John N. Griffin, Eoin J. O'Gorman, Mark C. Emmerson ... [et al.] -- The Analysis of Biodiversity Experiments: From pattern toward mechanism / Andy Hector, Thomas Bell, John Connolly ... [et al.] -- Towards a Food Web Perspective on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning / Bradley Cardinale, Emmett Duffy, Diane Srivastava ... [et al.] -- Microbial Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Under Controlled Conditions and in the Wild / Thomas Bell, Mark O. Gessner, Robert I. Griffiths ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity as Spatial Insurance: The effects of habitat fragmentation and dispersal on ecosystem functioning / Andrew Gonzalez, Nicolas Mouquet, and Michel Loreau -- Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing. Incorporating Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives / Sandra Díaz, David A. Wardle, and Andy Hector -- Restoring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Will an integrated approach improve results? / Justin Wright, Amy Symstad, James M. Bullock ... [et al.] -- Managed Ecosystems: Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in landscapes modified by human use / Louise Jackson, Todd Rosenstock, Matthew Thomas ... [et al.] -- Understanding the Role of Species Richness for Crop Pollination Services / Alexandra-Maria Klein, Christine Müller, Patrick Hoehn ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Perspectives on disease / Richard S. Ostfeld, Matthew Thomas, and Felicia Keesing -- Opening Communities to Colonization: The impacts of invaders on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning / Katharina Engelhardt, Amy Symstad, Anne-Helene Prieur-Richard ... [et al.] -- The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services / Charles Perrings, Stefan Baumgartner, William .A. Brock ... [et al.] -- The Valuation of Ecosystem Services / Edward B. Barbier, Stefan Baumgärtner, Kanchan Chopra ... [et al.] -- Modelling Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Coupled Ecological-Economic Systems / William A. Brock, David Finnoff, Ann P. Kinzig -- Summary and Synthesis. TraitNet: Furthering biodiversity research through the curation, discovery, and sharing of species trait data / Shahid Naeem and Daniel E. Bunker -- Can We Predict the Effects of Global Change on Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Functioning? / Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector ... [et al.]. 
520 0 |a How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-being?In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The book starts by summarizing the development of the basic science and provides a meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several biodiversity and ecosystem functioning hypotheses. It then describes the natural science foundations of biodiversity and ecosystem functioningresearch including: quantifying functional diversity, the development of the field into a predictive science, the effects of stability and complexity, methods to quantify mechanisms by which diversity affects functioning, the importance of trophic structure, microbial ecology, and spatial dynamics. Finally,the book takes research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning further than it has ever gone into the human dimension, describing the most pressing environmental challenges that face humanity and the effects of diversity on: climate change mitigation, restoration of degraded habitats, managed ecosystems, pollination, disease, and biological invasions. However, what makes this volume truly unique are the chapters that consider the economic perspective. These include a synthesis of the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity, and the options open to policy-makers to address the failure of markets to account for the loss of ecosystem services; an examination of the challenges of valuing ecosystem services and, hence, to understanding the human consequences of decisions that neglect these services; and an examination of the ways inwhich economists are currently incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research into decision models for the conservation and management of biodiversity. A final section describes new advances in ecoinformatics that will help transform this field into a globally predictive science, andsummarizes the advancements and future directions of the field. The ultimate conclusion is that biodiversity is an essential element of any strategy for sustainable development. 
650 0 |a Biodiversity. 
650 0 |a Ecosystem health 
650 0 |a Human ecology. 
650 0 |a Biodiversity  |x Economic aspects. 
700 1 |a Naeem, Shahid. 
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