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  title info:
    title: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing
    sub title: an ecological and economic perspective
  title info:
    title: Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, & human wellbeing
  name:
    name part: Naeem, Shahid.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: 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 th…
  table of contents: List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Introduction, background, and meta-analyses; 1 Introduction: the ecological and social implications of changing biodiversity. An overview of a decade of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research; 2 Consequences of species loss for ecosystem functioning: meta-analyses of data from biodiversity experiments; 3 Biodiversity-ecosystem function research and biodiversity futures: early bird catches the worm or a day late and a dollar short?; Part 2: Natural science foundations.
  table of contents: 4 A functional guide to functional diversity measures5 Forecasting decline in ecosystem services under realistic scenarios of extinction; 6 Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning; 7 The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern toward mechanism; 8 Towards a food web perspective on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; 9 Microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under controlled conditions and in the wild; 10 Biodiversity as spatial insurance: the effects of habitat fragmentation and dispersal on ecosystem functioning.
  table of contents: Part 3: Ecosystem services and human wellbeing11 Incorporating biodiversity in climate change mitigation initiatives; 12 Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results?; 13 Managed ecosystems: biodiversity and ecosystem functions in landscapes modified by human use; 14 Understanding the role of species richness for crop pollination services; 15 Biodiversity and ecosystem function: perspectives on disease; 16 Opening communities to colonization -- the impacts of invaders on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
  table of contents: 17 The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services18 The valuation of ecosystem services; 19 Modelling biodiversity and ecosystem services in coupled ecological-economic systems; Part 4: Summary and synthesis; 20 TraitNet: furthering biodiversity research through the curation, discovery, and sharing of species trait data; 21 Can we predict the effects of global change on biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning?; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Shahid Naeem [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-356) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
    topic: Monitoring
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystem health
  subject:
    topic: Ecological assessment (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Ecological assessment (Biology)
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversité
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversité
    topic: Surveillance
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Écosystèmes
    topic: Santé
  subject:
    topic: Évaluation écologique (Biologie)
  subject:
    topic: Évaluation écologique (Biologie)
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Êtres humains
    topic: Influence de l'environnement
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Biological Diversity
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Animals
    topic: Wildlife
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Ecological assessment (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystem health
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
  classification: QH541.15.B56 B575 2009eb
  classification: 333.95
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