Research Catalog

Title

Functional roles of biodiversity : a global perspective / edited by Harold A. Mooney [and others].

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mooney, Harold A.
• International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
• United Nations Environment Programme.

Description

xxiii, 493 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, maps (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

SCOPE ; 55

Uniform Title

SCOPE report ; 55.

Subject

• Exocet
• Biodiversity
• Ecology
• Artenreichtum
• Ökosystem
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Klima
• Biodiversiteit
• Écosystèmes
• Biodiversité
• Écologie
• biodiversité > études diverses

Note

• "Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

SCOPE ecosystem functioning of biodiversity program / H.A. Mooney [and others] -- Artic and alpine biodiversity : its patterns, causes and ecosystem consequences / F. Stuart Chapin III and Christian Körner -- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in boreal regions / John Pastor [and others] -- Biodiversity and ecosystem function of temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests / E.-D. Schulze [and others] -- Ecosystem function of biodiversity in arid ecosystems / L.F. Huenneke and I. Noble -- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in grasslands / O.E. Sala [and others] -- Mediterranean-type ecosystems : the influence of biodiversity on their functioning / George W. Davis [and others] -- Biodiversity and tropical savanna propeties : a global view / Otto T. Solbrig, Ernesto Medina and Juan F. Silva -- Impact of biodiversity on tropical forest ecosystem processes / Gordon H. Orians, Rodolfo Dirzo and J. Hall Cushman -- Island ecosystems : do they represent natural experiments in biological diversity and ecosystem function? / Peter M. Vitousek [and others] -- Biodiversity and agroecosystem function / M.J. Swift [and others] -- Freshwater ecosystems : linkages of complexity and processes / S. Carpenter [and others] -- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in tropical estuaries : perspectives of mangrove ecosystems / Robert R. Twilley [and others] -- Predictability and uncertainty in community regulation : consequences of reduced consumer diversity in coastal rocky ecosystems / Gary W. Allison [and others] -- Biodiversity and ecosystem function of coral reefs / Terence J. Done [and others] -- Human impact, biodiversity and ecosystem processes in the open ocean / Mark Chandler, Les Kaufman and Sandor Mulsow -- What we have learned about the ecosystem functioning of biodiversity / H.A. Mooney [and others].

ISBN

• 0471956015
• 9780471956013

LCCN

96012983

OCLC

• ocm34471606
• 34471606
• SCSB-9625128

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library