Abstract
How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The first section summarizes the development of the basic science and provides a meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several biodiversity and ecosystem functioning hypotheses. The second section describes the natural science foundations of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, including: quantifying functional diversity, the development of the field into a predictive science, effects of stability and complexity, methods to quantify mechanisms by which diversity affects functioning, the importance of trophic structure, microbial ecology, and spatial dynamics. The third section takes research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning further than it has ever gone into the human dimension. The first six chapters cover the most pressing environmental challenges humanity faces, including effects of diversity on: climate change mitigation, restoration of degraded habitats, managed ecosystems, pollination, disease, and biological invasions. The remaining chapters of section three that consider the economic perspective, including: 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. The final section describes new advances in ecoinformatics that will help transform this field into a globally predictive science, and finally, summarizes the advancements and future directions of the field. The book's ultimate conclusion is that biodiversity is an essential element of any strategy for sustainable development.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780191720345, 9780199547951 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 30 2009 |
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Keywords
- Biodiversity
- Diversity
- Ecosystem functioning
- Ecosystem services
- Sustainable development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing : An Ecological and Economic Perspective. / Naeem, Shahid; Bunker, Daniel E.; Hector, Andy; Loreau, Michel; Perrings, Charles.
Oxford University Press, 2009. 384 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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