Fundamentals of ecosystem science / Kathleen C. Weathers, David L. Strayer, Gene E. Likens
By: Weathers, Kathleen C [autor]
Contributor(s): Likens, Gene E [autor]
| Strayer, David L [autor]
Publisher: ámsterdam, Boston : Elsevier, ©2013Description: x, 312 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 cmContent type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9780120887743Subject(s): Ecología

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
<p> Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science.</p> <p>This book covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. It addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It combines general lessons, concepts, frameworks, and challenges in highly accessible synthesis chapters. It presents firsthand case studies, written by leaders in the field, offering personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach led to innovations, new understanding, management changes, and policy solutions.</p> <p>This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have had a general biology course, but not further training in ecosystems as well as researchers and professionals in ecology and environmental sciences.</p>
Include appendix, glossary an index. -- Appendix A. primer on biologically mediated redox reaction in ecosystems.
Ecological energetics. -- Biogeochemestry. -- Synthesis. -- Case studies.
Ecosystem science has developed into a major part of contemporary ecology, and it is now applied to diagnose and solve a wide range of important environmental problems. Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science. Written by a group of experts, this book covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. Addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Combines general lessons, concepts, frameworks, and challenges in highly accessible synthesis chapters. Presents firsthand case studies, written by leaders in the field, offering personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach led to innovations, new understanding, management changes, and policy solutions.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science
- Part I Ecosystem Energetics
- 2 Primary Production: The Foundation of Ecosystems
- 3 Secondary Production and Consumer Energetics
- 4 Organic Matter Decomposition
- 5 Element Cycling
- 6 The Carbon Cycle
- 7 The Nitrogen Cycle
- 8 The Phosphorus Cycle
- Part II Synthesis
- 9 Revisiting the Ecosystem Concept: Important Features That Promote Generality and Understanding
- 10 Ecosystems in a Heterogeneous World
- 11 Controls on Ecosystem Structure and Function
- Part III Essays
- 12 From Global Environmental Change to Sustainability Science: Ecosystem Studies in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
- 13 Ecology of Lyme Disease
- 14 Understanding Ecosystem Effects fo Dams
- 15 Acid Rain
- 16 Streams and Their Valleys
- 17 Frontiers in Ecosystem Science Appendix:A Primer on Biologically Mediated Redox Reactions in Ecosystems
- Glossary
- Index
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