Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128127629,9780128127636,0128127627,0128127635

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0128127627
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128127629
• Author: Kathleen C. Weathers, David L. Strayer, Gene E. Likens

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.

Table 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

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