Kathleen C. Weathers,
David L. Strayer,
Gene E. Likens
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science
Paperback Engels 2021 9780128127629Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science covering land, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Featuring full color images to support learning and written by a group of experts, this updated edition covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. Case studies of important environmental problems offer personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach has helped solve important intellectual and practical problems.
For those choosing to use the book in a classroom environment, or who want to enrich further their reading experience, teaching and learning assets are available at Elsevier.com.
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Inhoudsopgave
Section 1: Introduction
1. Introduction
Section 2: Ecological Energetics
2. Primary Production
3. Secondary Production
4. Decomposition
5. Microbially Mediated Redox Reactions
Section 3: Biogeochemistry
6. Intro to Element Cycling
7. Carbon Cycle
8. Nitrogen Cycle
9. Phosphorus Cycle
Section 4: Synthesis
10. Revisiting the Ecosystem Concept: Important Features that Promote Generality and Understanding
11. Ecosystems in a heterogeneous world
12. Controls on ecosystem structure and function
Section 5: Case Studies
13. Streams and their valleys
14. Ecology of lyme disease
15. Understanding Ecosystem Effects of Dams
16. Acid Rain
17. Surprising ecosystem changes in the Naragannsett Bay
18. From global environmental change to sustainability science: Ecosystem studies in Yaqui Valley Mexico
Section 6: Frontiers
19. Ecosystem science: the continuing evolution of our discipline
1. Introduction
Section 2: Ecological Energetics
2. Primary Production
3. Secondary Production
4. Decomposition
5. Microbially Mediated Redox Reactions
Section 3: Biogeochemistry
6. Intro to Element Cycling
7. Carbon Cycle
8. Nitrogen Cycle
9. Phosphorus Cycle
Section 4: Synthesis
10. Revisiting the Ecosystem Concept: Important Features that Promote Generality and Understanding
11. Ecosystems in a heterogeneous world
12. Controls on ecosystem structure and function
Section 5: Case Studies
13. Streams and their valleys
14. Ecology of lyme disease
15. Understanding Ecosystem Effects of Dams
16. Acid Rain
17. Surprising ecosystem changes in the Naragannsett Bay
18. From global environmental change to sustainability science: Ecosystem studies in Yaqui Valley Mexico
Section 6: Frontiers
19. Ecosystem science: the continuing evolution of our discipline
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