The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity: The Starting Point -- An Introduction to the Functional Diversity of Temperate Forest Trees -- Productivity and Growth -- Diversity and Productivity in Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Experimental Plots -- Confounding Factors in the Observational Productivity-Diversity Relationship in Forests -- Genetic Diversity Parameters Associated with Viabi…
Challenges and Conceptual Approaches -- Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- Causes and Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Function -- The Template: Patterns and Processes of Spatial Variation -- Thoughts on the Generation and Importance of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystems and Landscapes -- Reciprocal Cause and Effect Between Environmental Heterogeneity and Trans…
The paleoenvironmental context -- Distribution -- Mapping -- Exogenic and endogenic controls -- Coral Biology -- Diversity -- Environmental archive -- Conservation.Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with high-technology instrumentation is currently another hot topic in multidisciplinary marine research. Convent…
Modelling Particle Selection Efficiency of Bivalve Suspension Feeders -- Field Measurements on the Variability in Biodeposition and Estimates of Grazing Pressure of Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in the Northern Baltic Sea -- Can Bivalve Suspension-Feeders Affect Pelagic Food Web Structure? -- Motile Suspension-Feeders in Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems -- Impact of Suspension-Feeding Nekton in Fr…
The study of biodiversity in freshwater habitats: societal relevance and suggestions for priorities in science policy -- Biodiversity: a resource with a monetary value? -- Linking science and policy for biodiversity -- Relevance and policy dimensions of research on biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems: a developing country perspective -- Conservation of freshwater biodiversity: does the real w…
Mountains Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology General Aspects of Vegetation and Soils in Cold Environments -- Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems -- Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions -- Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts -- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in America -- Regeneration of Whit…
Fish community assemblages -- Patterning riverine fish assemblages using an unsupervised neural network -- Predicting fish assemblages in France and evaluating the influence of their environmental variables -- Fish diversity conservation and river restoration in southwest France: a review -- Modelling of freshwater fish and macro-crustacean assemblages for biological assessment in New Zealand -…
Part I: The role of microorganisms in the biogeochemical cycles in Antarctica -- Chapter 1. Role of Cyanobacteria in the ecology of different polar environments (Marc W. Van Goethem and Don A. Cowan) -- Chapter 2. Patterns of microorganisms inhabiting Antarctic freshwater lakes with special reference to aquatic moss pillars (Ryosuke Nakai, Satoshi Imura and Takeshi Naganuma) -- Chapter 3. Yeast…
1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems -- Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory -- 2.The Galapagos Urban Context -- 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos -- 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos -- Section 2.Socio-ecological models -- 5.Demographics of Change: Modellin…
Chapter1: General characteristic of impacted polar ecosystems -- Chapter2: Theoretical bases of geoecological risk assessment in technogenic conditions -- Chapter3: Geoecological risks in the gas industry -- Chapter4: Risk of human exposure to chemical substances in gas industry -- Chapter5: Geological risk management in Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg -- Chapter6: Biogeochemical technologies of remedi…