Note: Intro -- From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: On Unifying Approaches in Ecology -- 1. Population and Ecosystem Approaches in Ecology -- 2. The Maintenance and Functional Consequences of Species Diversity -- 3. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning -- 4. Food Webs, Interaction Webs, and Ecosystem Functioning -- 5. Stability and Complexity of Ecosystems: New Perspectives onan Old Debate -- 6. Material Cycling and the Overall Functioning of Ecosystems -- 7. Spatial Dynamics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Metacommunities and Metaecosystems -- 8. Evolution of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Properties -- 9. Postface: Toward an Integrated, Predictive Ecology -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Nature That Makes Us Human -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. HUMANS VERSUS NATURE -- 1. Homo sapiens, a species among many others . . . but not quite like the others -- 2. A brief history of the divorce between humans and nature -- 3. Subject and object: The mirror of modernity -- 4. Matter and spirit: The great illusion -- 5. The underside of economic rationality and progress -- 6. Journey to the center of the modern world -- PART II. WHERE HUMANS AND NATURE ARE ONE -- 7. Letting nature touch us -- 8. Recovering nature in us through our fundamental needs -- 9. Reunifying knowledge of body and mind -- 10. Building a social and economic order that serves life -- 11. Embracing life that flows through us -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction. The Ecological and Societal Consequences of Biodiversity Loss -- Part 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystems: An Overview -- Chapter 1. Biodiversity Change: Past, Present, and Future -- 1.1. Setting the stage: difficulties of documenting, understanding, and communicating biodiversity change -- 1.2. Biodiversity change in Earth history -- 1.3. Pre-industrial biodiversity change -- 1.4. Biodiversity change in the "Anthropocene" -- 1.5. Future of biodiversity change -- 1.6. Future of biodiversity change research -- 1.7. Acknowledgements -- 1.8. References -- Chapter 2. Biodiversity: Concepts, Dimensions, and Measures -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Progress in measuring taxonomic diversity -- 2.3. Taxonomic diversity and evenness measures -- 2.3.1. Taxonomic diversity: effective number of species -- 2.3.2. Evenness measures -- 2.4. A unified framework integrating diversities (TD, PD, and FD) -- 2.4.1. Phylogenetic diversity as a special case of attribute diversity -- 2.4.2. Functional diversity as a special case of attribute diversity -- 2.5. Diversity in space and time -- 2.6. Examples -- 2.6.1. Coral data -- 2.6.2. Saproxylic beetle data -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 2.8. Acknowledgements -- 2.9. References -- Chapter 3. Ecosystems: An Overview -- 3.1. An introduction to ecosystems -- 3.1.1. Ecosystem extent: abiotic factors in terrestrial systems -- 3.1.2. Ecosystem extent: biotic factors -- 3.1.3. Major ecosystem types -- 3.1.4. Meta-ecosystems -- 3.1.5. Ecosystem dynamics and change over time and space -- 3.2. Ecosystem functioning -- 3.3. Ecosystem stability -- 3.4. Ecosystem services -- 3.5. Human alterations to ecosystems -- 3.6. References -- Part 2. How Biodiversity Affects Ecosystem Functioning -- Chapter 4. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Theoretical Foundations. , 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Biodiversity: from causes to consequences -- 4.3. Why does biodiversity promote ecosystem functioning? -- 4.4. Trophic diversity and ecosystem functioning -- 4.5. BEF over time and space -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 4.7. Acknowledgements -- 4.8. References -- Chapter 5. Experimental Evidence for How Biodiversity Affects Ecosystem Functioning -- 5.1. The role of experiments -- 5.1.1. The experiment that launched a thousand experiments -- 5.1.2. How do we gain knowledge from experiments? -- 5.2. BEF experiments as tests of theory -- 5.2.1. Diversity as a driver of change in ecosystem function -- 5.2.2. Evidence for selection and complementarity -- 5.2.3. Experimental evidence for key assumptions of BEF theory -- 5.2.4. Testing for diversity effects under broader abiotic and biotic conditions -- 5.2.5. Diversity effects in space and time -- 5.3. Experiments that extend classic theory -- 5.3.1. Does extinction order matter? -- 5.3.2. Experiments that bridge BEF and modern coexistence theory (MCT) -- 5.3.3. Experimental evidence for effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. References -- Chapter 6. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Observational Analyses -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. A historical perspective: returning to observational data -- 6.3. Benefits of observational data -- 6.4. The challenge of causal inference in observational studies -- 6.5. Observational studies: results and evidence to date -- 6.5.1. Across dimensions of biodiversity -- 6.5.2. Across ecosystem functions -- 6.5.3. Across ecosystem types -- 6.5.4. Summary of current evidence gaps -- 6.6. Reviewing study design to date: how are studies analyzing observational data? -- 6.6.1. Moving forward: improving study designs for observational data and analyses -- 6.7. Future directions -- 6.8. Conclusion -- 6.9. References. , Part 3. How Biodiversity Affects Ecosystem Stability -- Chapter 7. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability: New Theoretical Insights -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. What is stability? -- 7.3. Why does local biodiversity promote ecosystem stability? -- 7.4. Scaling up diversity-stability relationships -- 7.5. Conclusion -- 7.6. Acknowledgements -- 7.7. References -- Chapter 8. What Do Biodiversity Experiments Tell Us About Biodiversity and Ecological Stability Relationships? -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Insight from models -- 8.3. A brief account of earlier diversity-stability experiments -- 8.4. The relationships between biodiversity and temporal stability -- 8.4.1. Grassland biodiversity experiments -- 8.4.2. Forest biodiversity experiments -- 8.4.3. Aquatic biodiversity experiments -- 8.4.4. Microbial biodiversity experiments -- 8.4.5. How general are the effects of species diversity on temporal stability? -- 8.4.6. Other dimensions of biodiversity -- 8.5. The relationships between biodiversity and resistance/resilience -- 8.6. The relevance of biodiversity experiments to real-world ecosystems -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 8.8. Acknowledgements -- 8.9. References -- Chapter 9. Biodiversity and Temporal Stability of Naturally Assembled Ecosystems Across Spatial Scales in a Changing World -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Biodiversity-stability relationships along natural gradients -- 9.3. Global change drivers and biodiversity-stability relationships -- 9.4. Contribution of dominant and rare species to stability -- 9.5. Future directions -- 9.6. References -- Part 4. How Biodiversity Affects Human Societies -- Chapter 10. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Managed Ecosystems -- 10.1. A brief history of the role of biodiversity in managed ecosystems -- 10.2. Biodiversity as the basis for a new green revolution -- 10.3. Biodiversity in agriculture. , 10.3.1. Crop genetic diversity -- 10.3.2. Species diversity in grasslands and intercropping -- 10.3.3. Farm-scale diversity -- 10.4. Biodiversity in forestry -- 10.4.1. Evidence for positive biodiversity effects on forest ecosystem services -- 10.4.2. Ecosystem services provided by agroforestry -- 10.5. Outlook -- 10.5.1. Potential of biodiversity to support the next green revolution -- 10.5.2. Obstacles -- 10.5.3. Solutions -- 10.6. Acknowledgements -- 10.7. References -- Chapter 11. Biodiversity and Human Health: On the Necessity of Combining Ecology and Public Health -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Microbial biodiversity is a key component of ecosystems -- 11.3. The linkages between biodiversity and human infectious diseases -- 11.4. The evolution of human society is punctuated by epidemiological phases -- 11.5. The new ecology and evolution of zoonotic and sapronotic establishment in the Anthropocene -- 11.6. The process of globalization of human infectious diseases -- 11.7. A livestock-dominated planet -- 11.8. Conclusion -- 11.9. Acknowledgements -- 11.10. References -- Chapter 12. Economic Valuation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. What valuation is and is not -- 12.3. Non-market economic valuation methods -- 12.3.1. Production function methods -- 12.3.2. Revealed preference methods -- 12.3.3. Stated preference methods -- 12.3.4. Benefit transfer methods -- 12.4. Conclusion -- 12.5. References -- Part 5. Zooming Out: Biodiversity in a Changing Planet -- Chapter 13. Feedbacks Between Biodiversity and Climate Change -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Vulnerability and responses of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to the changing climate in different biomes -- 13.3. Societal and political challenges to these twin crises and their interlinkages. , 13.4. The potential of biodiversity to cope with the changing climate -- 13.5. Conclusion -- 13.6. Acknowledgements -- 13.7. References -- Chapter 14. Feedbacks Between Biodiversity and Society -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Society's impact on biodiversity -- 14.2.1. Agriculture -- 14.2.2. Income -- 14.3. How societies view biodiversity -- 14.3.1. Biodiversity and culture -- 14.3.2. Biodiversity and well-being -- 14.3.3. Value of biodiversity -- 14.4. Biodiversity policy and society -- 14.4.1. Awareness and perception -- 14.4.2. Management strategies -- 14.4.3. Conflicts in biodiversity management -- 14.4.4. Successful initiatives -- 14.5. Conclusion -- 14.6. Acknowledgements -- 14.7. References -- Chapter 15. Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- 15.1. Introduction -- 15.2. Protecting biodiversity and ecosystems -- 15.2.1. What are protected areas and what are they intended to protect? -- 15.2.2. What global targets have been established for protected areas? -- 15.2.3. Where are protected areas and how effective are they? -- 15.2.4. Does protecting biodiversity also protect ecosystem services? -- 15.2.5. What are the limitations of protected areas? -- 15.3. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystems by reversing degradation -- 15.3.1. What is restoration and why is it needed? -- 15.3.2. What global targets have been established for restoration? -- 15.3.3. How extensive and effective is restoration? -- 15.3.4. Increasing the diversity of restorations can increase their efficacy -- 15.3.5. What are the limitations of restoration? -- 15.4. Looking ahead -- 15.5. Conclusion -- 15.6. Acknowledgements -- 15.7. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.

Note: Intro -- The Princeton Guide to Ecology -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I Autecology -- I.1 Ecological Niche -- I.2 Physiological Ecology: Animals -- I.3 Physiological Ecology: Plants -- I.4 Functional Morphology: Muscles, Elastic Mechanisms, and Animal Performance -- I.5 Habitat Selection -- I.6 Dispersal -- I.7 Foraging Behavior -- I.8 Social Behavior -- I.9 Phenotypic Plasticity -- I.10 Life History -- I.11 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems -- I.12 Geographic Range -- I.13 Adaptation -- I.14 Phenotypic Selection -- I.15 Population Genetics and Ecology -- I.16 Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods -- I.17 Microevolution -- I.18 Ecological Speciation: Natural Selection and the Formation of New Species -- I.19 Adaptive Radiation -- Part II Population Ecology -- II.1 Age-Structured and Stage-Structured Population Dynamics -- II.2 Density Dependence and Single-Species Population Dynamics -- II.3 Biological Chaos and Complex Dynamics -- II.4 Metapopulations and Spatial Population Processes -- II.5 Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities -- II.6 Competition and Coexistence in Animal Communities -- II.7 Predator-Prey Interactions -- II.8 Host-Parasitoid Interactions -- II.9 Ecological Epidemiology -- II.10 Interactions between Plants and Herbivores -- II.11 Mutualism and Symbiosis -- II.12 Ecology of Microbial Populations -- II.13 Coevolution -- Part III Communities and Ecosystems -- III.1 Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns, and Measurement -- III.2 Competition, Neutrality, and Community Organization -- III.3 Predation and Community Organization -- III.4 Facilitation and the Organization of Plant Communities -- III.5 Indirect Effects in Communities and Ecosystems: The Role of Trophic and Nontrophic Interactions -- III.6 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation of Communities. , III.7 The Structure and Stability of Food Webs -- III.8 Spatial and Metacommunity Dynamics in Biodiversity -- III.9 Ecosystem Productivity and Carbon Flows: Patterns across Ecosystems -- III.10 Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemistry -- III.11 Terrestrial Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles -- III.12 Freshwater Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles -- III.13 The Marine Carbon Cycle -- III.14 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning -- III.15 Ecological Stoichiometry -- III.16 Macroecological Perspectives on Communities and Ecosystems -- III.17 Alternative Stable States and Regime Shifts in Ecosystems -- III.18 Responses of Communities and Ecosystems to Global Changes -- III.19 Evolution of Communities and Ecosystems -- Part IV Landscapes and the Biosphere -- IV.1 Landscape Dynamics -- IV.2 Landscape Pattern and Biodiversity -- IV.3 Ecological Dynamics in Fragmented Landscapes -- IV.4 Biodiversity Patterns in Managed and Natural Landscapes -- IV.5 Boundary Dynamics in Landscapes -- IV.6 Spatial Patterns of Species Diversity in Terrestrial Environments -- IV.7 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Landscapes -- IV.8 Seascape Patterns and Dynamics of Coral Reefs -- IV.9 Seascape Microbial Ecology: Habitat Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Function -- IV.10 Spatial Dynamics of Marine Fisheries -- Part V Conservation Biology -- V.1 Causes and Consequences of Species Extinctions -- V.2 Population Viability Analysis -- V.3 Principles of Reserve Design -- V.4 Building and Implementing Systems of Conservation Areas -- V.5 Marine Conservation -- V.6 Conservation and Global Climate Change -- V.7 Restoration Ecology -- Part VI Ecosystem Services -- VI.1 Ecosystem Services: Issues of Scale and Trade-Offs -- VI.2 Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Ecosystem Services -- VI.3 Beyond Biodiversity: Other Aspects of Ecological Organization. , VI.4 Human-Dominated Systems: Agroecosystems -- VI.5 Forests -- VI.6 Grasslands -- VI.7 Marine Ecosystem Services -- VI.8 Provisioning Services: A Focus on Fresh Water -- VI.9 Regulating Services: A Focus on Disease Regulation -- VI.10 Support Services: A Focus on Genetic Diversity -- VI.11 The Economics of Ecosystem Services -- VI.12 Technological Substitution and Augmentation of Ecosystem Services -- VI.13 Conservation of Ecosystem Services -- Part VII Managing the Biosphere -- VII.1 Biological Control: Theory and Practice -- VII.2 Fisheries Management -- VII.3 Wildlife Management -- VII.4 Managing the Global Water System -- VII.5 Managing Nutrient Mobilization and Eutrophication -- VII.6 Managing Infectious Diseases -- VII.7 Agriculture, Land Use, and the Transformation of Planet Earth -- VII.8 The Ecology, Economics, and Management of Alien Invasive Species -- VII.9 Ecological Economics: Principles of Economic Policy Design for Ecosystem Management -- VII.10 Governance and Institutions -- VII.11 Assessments: Linking Ecology to Policy -- Milestones in Ecology -- Glossary -- Index.

Note: Intro -- 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 -- 4 A functional guide to functional diversity measures -- 5 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 -- Part 3: Ecosystem services and human wellbeing -- 11 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 -- 17 The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 18 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.

Note: Front Cover Page -- Table des matières -- Introduction : Les conséquences écologiques et sociétales de la perte de biodiversité -- PARTIE 1 : Biodiversité et écosystèmes : une vue d'ensemble -- Chapitre 1 : Les changements de la biodiversité : passé, présent et futur -- Chapitre 2 : Biodiversité : concepts, dimensions et mesures -- Chapitre 3 : Écosystèmes : aperçu général -- PARTIE 2 : L'influence de la biodiversité sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes -- Chapitre 4 : Biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystèmes : fondements théoriques -- Chapitre 5 : Biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystèmes : preuves expérimentales -- Chapitre 6 : Biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystèmes : analyses observationnelles -- PARTIE 3 : L'influence de la biodiversitésur la stabilité des écosystèmes -- Chapitre 7 : Biodiversité et stabilité des écosystèmes : nouvellesperspectives théoriques -- Chapitre 8 : Biodiversité et stabilité des écosystèmes : preuves expérimentales -- Chapitre 9 : Biodiversité et stabilité des écosystèmes : analyses observationnelles -- PARTIE 4 : L'influence de la biodiversité sur les sociétés humaines -- Chapitre 10 : Biodiversité et services écosystémiques dans les écosystèmes gérés -- Chapitre 11 : Biodiversité et santé humaine : de la nécessité de combiner écologie et santé publique -- Chapitre 12 : Évaluation économique de la biodiversitéet des services écosystémiques -- PARTIE 5 : Zoom arrière : la biodiversité au sein d'une planèteen mutation -- Chapitre 13 : Rétroactions entre biodiversité et changement climatique -- Chapitre 14 : Rétroactions entre biodiversitéet société -- Chapitre 15 : Protéger et restaurer la biodiversité et les services écosystémiques -- Liste des auteurs -- Index -- Back Cover page.