| Description |
xvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
/ Nancy Huntly -- Linking tree population dynamics and forest ecosystem processes / Charles D. Canham and Stephen W. Pacala -- Soil organisms as engineers : microsite modulation of macroscale processes / J.M. Anderson -- Soil fauna : linking different levels of the ecological hierarchy / Robert W. Parmelee -- Beaver as engineers : influences on biotic and abiotic characteristics of drainage basins / Michael M. Pollock ... [et al.] -- Atmospheric oxygen and the biosphere / Heinrich D. Holland -- Linking species and ecosystems : organisms as ecosystem engineers / John H. Lawton and Clive G. Jones -- Top-level carnivores and ecosystem effects : questions and approaches / James A. Estes -- Food webs in soil : an interface between population and ecosystem ecology / Jan Bengtsson ... [et al.] -- Unifying ecological subdisciplines with ecosystem food webs |
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/ Neo D. Martinez -- Coupling the dynamics of species and materials / William S.C. Gurney, Alex H. Ross, and Niall Broekhuizen -- Exploring aggregation in space and time / Monica G. Turner and Robert V. O'Neill -- Aggregation of species properties for biogeochemical modeling : empirical results / David S. Schimel ... [et al.] -- Functional redundancy and process aggregation : linking ecosystems to species / Edward B. Rastetter and Gaius R. Shaver -- Species compensation and complementarity in ecosystem function / Thomas M. Frost ... [et al.] -- Elemental stoichiometry of species in ecosystems / Robert W. Sterner -- Species, nitrogen, and grassland dynamics : the constraints of stuff / David A. Wedin -- Relationships between the energetics of species and large-scale species richness / Donald L. DeAngelis -- Linking species and ecosystems : where's Darwin? / Robert D. Holt -- Ecological flow chains and ecological systems : concepts for linking species and ecosystem perspectives / Moshe Shachak and Clive G. Jones -- The relevance of ecology : the societal context and disciplinary implications of linkages across levels of ecological organization / Jane Lubchenco -- Linking species and ecosystems through training of students / Lawrence B. Slobodkin -- Linking species and communities to ecosystem management : a perspective from the Experimental Lakes experience / D.W. Schindler . |
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Why link species and ecosystems? A perspective from ecosystem ecology / Nancy B. Grimm -- Organisms and species as complex adaptive systems : linking the biology of populations with the physics of ecosystems / James H. Brown -- Bioturbators as ecosystem engineers : control of the sediment fabric, inter-individual interactions, and material fluxes / Jeffrey Levinton -- Biogeochemical processes and marine benthic community structure : which follows which? / Anne E. Giblin, Kenneth H. Foreman, and Gary T. Banta -- Marine snow : what it is and how it affects ecosystem functioning / M.W. Silver ... [et al.] -- Floods, food chains, and ecosystem processes in rivers / Mary E. Power -- Population variability in experimental ecosystems / Michael L. Pace, Stephen R. Carpenter, and Patricia A. Soranno -- How important are consumer species to ecosystem functioning? |
| Analysis |
Ecological communities |
| Notes |
Papers from the Fifth Cary Conference, held at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, N.Y., May 8-12, 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-370) and index |
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Includes index |
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Biotic communities -- Congresses.
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Ecology -- Congresses.
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Species -- Congresses.
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Biotic communities -- Congresses.
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Biotic communities.
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Ecology -- Congresses.
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Ecology.
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Species -- Congresses.
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Species.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Jones, Clive G.
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Lawton, John H., 1943-
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Cary Conference (5th : 1993 : Institute of Ecosystem Studies)
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| LC no. |
94008281 |
| ISBN |
0412048019 |
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