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.
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Table of Contents
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
