Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective

by Andy Hector, Daniel E. Bunker, Michel Loreau, et al.

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-being?

In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes recent advances in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and explores the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The book starts by summarizing the development of the basic science and provides a meta-analysis that quantitatively tests several...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199547963
• ISBN13: 9780199547968
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.6"