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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective - Softcover

 
9780199547968: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199547963 ISBN 13: 9780199547968
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Biodiversity change is one of the most controversial and high profile areas of ecological research. This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications and applications to some of the most pressing environmental issues facing humans today.

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Shahid Naeem is Professor of Ecology and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University. Dr. Naeem pioneered experimental tests of the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function and co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis Report (Duraiappah and Naeem 2005).

Daniel Bunker is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey, USA). Dr. Bunker is also co-director of the BioMERGE project and the TraitNet project. He focuses on understanding the effects of global climate change on species diversity and composition, and the concomitant effects of ecosystem functioning and services.

Andy Hector is a community ecologist interested in the links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In 2003, he was appointed Assistant Professor within the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich where he is currently undergoing tenure review for a full Professorship.

Michel Loreau is Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He has won several scientific prizes, including the International Ecology Institute Prize and the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific Research (France), and has been a member of numerous national and international scientific committees such as chairing the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS and the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation programme (LINKECOL).

Charles Perrings is Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He has served as President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and as Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of Diversitas. He is also the 2008 winner of the Kenneth E. Boulding Prize for ecological economics.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199547963
ISBN 13 
9780199547968
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Herausgeber
Naeem Shahid, Bunker Daniel E., Hector Andy
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