Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing : an ecological and economic perspective / [texte imprimé] / Shahid Naeem . - Oxford : Oxford University press, 2009 . - xiv, 368 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-19-954795-1

Catégories :	Diversité biologique
Index. décimale :	333.95 Biodiversité
Résumé :	How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity?ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The first section summarizes the development of the basic science and provides a meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several biodiversity and ecosystem functioning hypotheses. The second section describes the natural science foundations of biodiversity?ecosystem functioning research, including: quantifying functional diversity, the development of the field into a predictive science, effects of stability and complexity, methods to quantify mechanisms by which diversity affects functioning, the importance of trophic structure, microbial ecology, and spatial dynamics. The third section takes research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning further than it has ever gone into the human dimension. The first six chapters cover the most pressing environmental challenges humanity faces, including effects of diversity on: climate change mitigation, restoration of degraded habitats, managed ecosystems, pollination, disease, and biological invasions. The remaining chapters of section three that consider the economic perspective, including: 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 in which economists are currently incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research into decision models for the conservation and management of biodiversity. The final section describes new advances in ecoinformatics that will help transform this field into a globally predictive science, and finally, summarizes the advancements and future directions of the field. The book's ultimate conclusion is that biodiversity is an essential element of any strategy for sustainable development.
Note de contenu :	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 Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, and Charles Perrings 2 Consequences of species loss for ecosystem functioning: meta-analyses of data from biodiversity experiments Bernhard Schmid, Patricia Balvanera, Bradley J. Cardinale, Jasmin Godbold, Andrea B. Pfisterer, David Raffaelli, Martin Solan, and Diane S. Srivastava 3 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, Dan F. B. Flynn, and Daniel E. Bunker Part 2 Natural science foundations 4 A functional guide to functional diversity measures Owen L. Petchey, Eoin J. O’Gorman, and Dan F. B. Flynn 5 Forecasting decline in ecosystem services under realistic scenarios of extinction J. Emmett Duffy, Diane S. Srivastava, Jennie McLaren, Mahesh Sankaran, Martin Solan, John Griffin, Mark Emmerson, and Kate E. Jones 6 Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning John N. Griffin, Eoin J. O’Gorman, Mark C. Emmerson, Stuart R. Jenkins, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Michel Loreau, and Amy Symstad 7 The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern toward mechanism Andy Hector, Thomas Bell, John Connolly, John Finn, Jeremy Fox, Laura Kirwan, Michel Loreau, Jennie McLaren, Bernhard Schmid, and Alexandra Weigelt 8 Towards a food web perspective on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Bradley Cardinale, Emmett Duffy, Diane Srivastava, Michel Loreau, Matt Thomas, and Mark Emmerson 9 Microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under controlled conditions and in the wild Thomas Bell, Mark O. Gessner, Robert I. Griffiths, Jennie R. McLaren, Peter J. Morin, Marcel van der Heijden, and Wim H. van der Putten 10 Biodiversity as spatial insurance: the effects of habitat fragmentation and dispersal on ecosystem functioning Andrew Gonzalez, Nicolas Mouquet, and Michel Loreau Part 3 Ecosystem services and human wellbeing 11 Incorporating biodiversity in climate change mitigation initiatives Sandra Díaz, David A. Wardle, and Andy Hector 12 Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results? Justin Wright, Amy Symstad, James M. Bullock, Katharina Engelhardt, Louise Jackson, and Emily Bernhardt 13 Managed ecosystems: biodiversity and ecosystem functions in landscapes modified by human use Louise Jackson, Todd Rosenstock, Matthew Thomas, Justin Wright, and Amy Symstad 14 Understanding the role of species richness for crop pollination services Alexandra-Maria Klein, Christine Müller, Patrick Hoehn, and Claire Kremen 15 Biodiversity and ecosystem function: perspectives on disease Richard S. Ostfeld, Matthew Thomas, and Felicia Keesing 16 Opening communities to colonization – the impacts of invaders on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Katharina Engelhardt, Amy Symstad, Anne-Helene Prieur-Richard, Matthew Thomas, and Daniel E. Bunker 17 The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services Charles Perrings, Stefan Baumgärtner, William A. Brock, Kanchan Chopra, Marc Conte, Christopher Costello, Anantha Duraiappah, Ann P. Kinzig, Unai Pascual, Stephen Polasky, John Tschirhart, and Anastasios Xepapadeas 18 The valuation of ecosystem services Edward B. Barbier, Stefan Baumgärtner, Kanchan Chopra, Christopher Costello, Anantha Duraiappah, Rashid Hassan, Ann P. Kinzig, Markus Lehman, Unai Pascual, Stephen Polasky, and Charles Perrings 19 Modelling biodiversity and ecosystem services in coupled ecological–economic systems William A. Brock, David Finnoff, Ann P. Kinzig, Unai Pascual, Charles Perrings, John Tschirhart, and Anastasios Xepapadeas Part 4 Summary and synthesis 20 TraitNet: furthering biodiversity research through the curation, discovery, and sharing of species trait data Shahid Naeem, and Daniel E. Bunker 21 Can we predict the effects of global change on biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning? Shahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, and Charles Perrings