Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem ScienceMichael L. Pace, Peter M. Groffman Research on the ecosystems has emerged in recent decades as a vital, successful, and sometimes controversial approach to environmental science. Ecosystem science has addressed issues such as human alteration of biogeochemical cycles, ecological complexity and biodiversity, and ecological response to climate change. As a central and integrating science, ecosystem-level studies have been highly successful. This book emphasizes the idea that much of the progress in ecosystem research has been driven by the emergence of new environmental problems that could not be addressed by existing approaches. By focusing on successes, limitations, and frontiers in ecosystem studies, it will be welcomed by students and scientists throughout the ecological and environmental communities. |
Contents
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Links Between Habitat | 69 |
Riparian Forest Ecosystems as Filters | 113 |
Progress in Understanding Biogeochemical Cycles | 165 |
Limitations to Intellectual Progress in Ecosystem Science | 247 |
Improving Links Between Ecosystem Scientists | 272 |
The Need for LargeScale Experiments to Assess | 287 |
Ecosystem Approaches to the Management | 313 |
Ecosystems and Problems of Measurement | 346 |
Integration of Ecophysiological and Biogeochemical | 372 |
Simulation Modeling in Ecosystem Science | 404 |
WithinSystem Element Cycles InputOutput Budgets | 432 |
Species Composition Species Diversity | 452 |
What Kind of a Discipline Is This Anyhow? | 473 |
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Stephen R Carpenter Center for Limnology University of Wisconsin | 342 |
Other editions - View all
Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science Michael L. Pace,Peter M. Groffman No preview available - 1998 |
Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science Michael L. Pace,Peter M. Groffman No preview available - 2014 |
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