Linking Species & Ecosystems

...this is an excellent book and an important contribution in bridging two major sub-disciplines of ecology: population /community ecology and ecosystem ecology. Webber State University

• Issues.- 1. Why Link Species and Ecosystems? A Perspective from Ecosystem Ecology.- 2. Organisms and Species as Complex Adaptive Systems: Linking the Biology of Populations with the Physics of Ecosystems.- Scope.- 3. Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineers: Control of the Sediment Fabric, Inter-Individual Interactions, and Material Fluxes.- 4. Biogeochemical Processes and Marine Benthic Community Structure: Which Follows Which?.- 5. Marine Snow: What it is and How it Affects Ecosystem Functioning.- 6. Floods, Food Chains, and Ecosystem Processes in Rivers.- 7. Population Variability in Experimental Ecosystems.- 8. How Important are Consumer Species to Ecosystem Functioning?.- 9. Linking Tree Population Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Processes.- 10. Soil Organisms as Engineers: Microsite Modulation of Macroscale Processes.- 11. Soil Fauna: Linking Different Levels of the Ecological Hierarchy.- 12. Beaver as Engineers: Influences on Biotic and Abiotic Characteristics of Drainage Basins.- 13. Atmospheric Oxygen and the Biosphere.- Approaches.- 14. Linking Species and Ecosystems: Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers.- 15. Top-Level Carnivores and Ecosystem Effects: Questions and Approaches.- 16. Food Webs in Soil: An Interface Between Population and Ecosystem Ecology.- 17. Unifying Ecological Subdisciplines with Ecosystem Food Webs.- 18. Coupling the Dynamics of Species and Materials.- 19. Exploring Aggregation in Space and Time.- 20. Aggregation of Species Properties for Biogeochemical Modeling: Empirical Results.- 21. Functional Redundancy and Process Aggregation: Linking Ecosystems to Species.- 22. Species Compensation and Complementarity in Ecosystem Function.- 23. Elemental Stoichiometry of Species in Ecosystems.- 24. Species, Nitrogen, and Grassland Dynamics: The Constraints of Stuff.- 25. Relationships between the Energetics of Species and Large-Scale Species Richness.- 26. Linking Species and Ecosystems: Where’s Darwin?.- 27. Ecological Flow Chains and Ecological Systems: Concepts for Linking Species and Ecosystem Perspectives.- Context.- 28. The Relevance of Ecology: The Societal Context and Disciplinary Implications of Linkages Across Levels of Ecological Organization.- 29. Linking Species and Ecosystems Through Training of Students.- 30. Linking Species and Communities to Ecosystem Management: A Perspective from the Experimental Lakes Experience.- 31. Why Link Species Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Resource Management?.- References.