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Linking Species & Ecosystems

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Clive G. Jones

    1. Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, USA

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  2. John H. Lawton

    1. Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, USA
      Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  3. Scope

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-27
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    2. Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineers: Control of the Sediment Fabric, Inter-Individual Interactions, and Material Fluxes

      • Jeffrey Levinton
      Pages 29-36

    3. Biogeochemical Processes and Marine Benthic Community Structure: Which Follows Which?

      • Anne E. Giblin, Kenneth H. Foreman, Gary T. Banta
      Pages 37-44

    4. Marine Snow: What It Is and How It Affects Ecosystem Functioning

      • M. W. Silver, S. L. Coale, D. K. Steinberg, C. H. Pilskaln
      Pages 45-51

    5. Floods, Food Chains, and Ecosystem Processes in Rivers

      • Mary E. Power
      Pages 52-60

    6. Population Variability in Experimental Ecosystems

      • Michael L. Pace, Stephen R. Carpenter, Patricia A. Soranno
      Pages 61-71

    7. How Important Are Consumer Species to Ecosystem Functioning?

      • Nancy Huntly
      Pages 72-83

    8. Linking Tree Population Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Processes

      • Charles D. Canham, Stephen W. Pacala
      Pages 84-93

    9. Soil Organisms as Engineers: Microsite Modulation of Macroscale Processes

      • J. M. Anderson
      Pages 94-106

    10. Soil Fauna: Linking Different Levels of the Ecological Hierarchy

      • Robert W. Parmelee
      Pages 107-116

    11. Beaver as Engineers: Influences on Biotic and Abiotic Characteristics of Drainage Basins

      • Michael M. Pollock, Robert J. Naiman, Heather E. Erickson, Carol A. Johnston, John Pastor, Gilles Pinay
      Pages 117-126

    12. Atmospheric Oxygen and the Biosphere

      • Heinrich D. Holland
      Pages 127-136

  4. Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-140
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    2. Linking Species and Ecosystems: Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers

      • John H. Lawton, Clive G. Jones
      Pages 141-150

    3. Top-Level Carnivores and Ecosystem Effects: Questions and Approaches

      • James A. Estes
      Pages 151-158

    4. Food Webs in Soil: An Interface Between Population and Ecosystem Ecology

      • Jan Bengtsson, David Wei Zheng, Göran I. Ã…gren, Tryggve Persson
      Pages 159-165
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About this book

I was asked to introduce this volume by examining "why a knowledge of ecosys­ tem functioning can contribute to understanding species activities, dynamics, and assemblages." I have found it surprisingly difficult to address this topic. On the one hand, the answer is very simple and general: because all species live in ecosystems, they are part of and dependent on ecosystem processes. It is impossible to understand the abundance and distribution of populations and the species diversity and composition of communities without a knowledge of their abiotic and biotic environments and of the fluxes of energy and mat­ ter through the ecosystems of which they are a part. But everyone knows this. It is what ecology is all about (e.g., Likens, 1992). It is why the discipline has retained its integrity and thrived, despite a sometimes distressing degree of bickering and chauvinism among its various subdisciplines: physiological, be­ havioral, population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

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...this is an excellent book and an important contribution in bridging two major sub-disciplines of ecology: population /community ecology and ecosystem ecology. Webber State University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, USA

    Clive G. Jones, John H. Lawton

  • Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK

    John H. Lawton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linking Species & Ecosystems

  • Editors: Clive G. Jones, John H. Lawton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1773-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-04801-2Published: 30 November 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5714-8Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1773-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 387

  • Topics: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology

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