This volume focuses on the integration of population and ecosystem ecology - an approach that offers vast potential for improving our understanding of the complexities of nature and the management of environmental problems. The editors have broughtMoreThis volume focuses on the integration of population and ecosystem ecology - an approach that offers vast potential for improving our understanding of the complexities of nature and the management of environmental problems.
The editors have brought together a group of experts to explore diverse aspects of linking species and ecosystem perspectives - theoretical, empirical and pragmatic. These include: processes that range from a local to a planetary scale- the role of organisms as ecosystem engineers- the use of ecological flow chains to link population and ecosystem processes- numerous examples of the influence of species on ecosystem processes and vice versa- a unique blend of problems and processes drawn from marine- freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems- problems of species redundancy in ecosystem processes- stoichiometric constraints on species interactions- and scaling and aggregation problems.