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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing - An Ecological and Economic Perspective (Paperback, New)
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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing - An Ecological and Economic Perspective (Paperback, New)
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How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem
services, and human well-being?
In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and
critical volume summarizes recent advances in
biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the
economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The book starts
by summarizing the development of the basic science and provides a
meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several biodiversity and
ecosystem functioning hypotheses. It then describes the natural
science foundations of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
research including: quantifying functional diversity, the
development of the field into a predictive science, the effects of
stability and complexity, methods to quantify mechanisms by which
diversity affects functioning, the importance of trophic structure,
microbial ecology, and spatial dynamics. Finally, the book takes
research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning further than it
has ever gone into the human dimension, describing the most
pressing environmental challenges that face humanity and the
effects of diversity on: climate change mitigation, restoration of
degraded habitats, managed ecosystems, pollination, disease, and
biological invasions.
However, what makes this volume truly unique are the chapters that
consider the economic perspective. These include a synthesis of the
economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity, and the options
open to policy-makers to address the failure of markets to account
for the loss of ecosystem services; an examination of the
challenges of valuing ecosystem services and, hence, to
understanding the human consequences of decisions that neglect
these services; and an examination of the ways in which economists
are currently incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
research into decision models for the conservation and management
of biodiversity. A final section describes new advances in
ecoinformatics that will help transform this field into a globally
predictive science, and summarizes the advancements and future
directions of the field. The ultimate conclusion is that
biodiversity is an essential element of any strategy for
sustainable development.
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