Ecosystem Services: From Biodiversity to Society, Part 1

We all benefit from the ecosystem services (ES) provided by biodiversity. In a world undergoing change, due to human-driven and natural causes, the question is how we can better understand and manage these services. This volume presents new and exciting view-points on this question

Guy Woodward (Volume editor), David Bohan (Volume editor)

9780128038857, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 26 November 2015

358 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology.

1. 10 Years Later: Revisiting Priorities for Science and Society a Decade after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
2. Linking Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning and Services, and Ecological Resilience: Towards an Integrative Framework for Improved Management
3. Detrital Dynamics and Cascading Effects on Supporting Ecosystem Services
4. Towards an Integration of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning and Food-Web Theory to Evaluate Relationships Between Multiple Ecosystem Services
5. Persistence of Plants and Pollinators in the face of Habitat Loss: Insights from Trait-based Metacommunity Models
6. A Network-Based Method to Detect Patterns of Local Crop Biodiversity: Validation at the Species and Infra-Species Levels

Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], The environment [RN]