Ecosystems:
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2007
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| Edition: | 2. ed. |
| Series: | Routledge introductions to environment series
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| Physical Description: | XVI, 205 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0415332796 0415332788 9780415332781 9780415332798 |
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Series editors preface vii
List of plates ix
List of figures x
List of tables xi
List of boxes xii
Authors preface to the first edition xv
A uthors preface to the second edition x v i i
Chapter 1 The nature of ecosystems 1
Chapter 2 How ecosystems work: operational and support functions 27
Chapter 3 Energy flow and energetics 43
Chapter 4 Material cycles in ecosystems 57
Chapter 5 Ecosystems in high-stress environments: meeting environmental
challenges 77
Chapter 6 The role of disturbance and succession in ecosystem functioning 92
Chapter 7 Life in a crowd: productive and intermediate ecosystems 106
Chapter 8 Biomes: world ecosystem types 118
Chapter 9 Human impacts on ecosystems: humans as an ecological factor 139
Chapter 10 Large-scale human impacts on ecosystems 153
Chapter 11 Global environmental change: ecosystem response and
biosphere impacts 168
Glossary 184
Bibliography 192
Index 199
Plates
An example of an isoetid plant (Ottelia brasiliense) occurring in Brazilian
lakes and reservoirs 31
Mount St Helens, Washington State, USA (a) before the 1980 eruption;
(b) immediately after the 1980 eruption: a massive environmental
disturbance event 35
A plant with a strong element of disturbance-tolerance in its survival
strategy: ragwort (Senecio jacobea) 36
A plant with a strong element of stress-tolerance in its survival strategy:
purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) 36
(a) Emperor penguin {Aptenodytes forsteri); (b) Magellanic penguin
(Spheniscus magellanicus) 83
Saguaro cactus (Cereus giganteus): Organ Pipes Cactus National
Monument Area, Arizona, USA 87
Vegetation colonising a scree slope on the island of Rum. Scotland 95
Impact on the West Highland Way long-distance footpath. Scotland 149
Figures
1.1 Distribution of land biomes 5
1.2 Trophic structure and energy flow in an ecosystem 6
1.3 Physical environment of the biosphere 6
1.4 Relationship between nutrient supply and plant growth rate 13
1.5 The hydrological cycle 21
2.1 Triangular CSR model showing main and intermediate plant survival
strategies in the established (adult) phase of the plant life cycle 33
3.1 Deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystem sites in the north-east Pacific 45
3.2 Pyramid diagrams depicting trophic relationships in ecosystems 50
3.3 Antarctic Ocean food web, showing feeding relationships between
producer and consumer organisms 51
3.4 Plot of energy v. Si/P ratio for two diatoms with different half-saturation
constants 55
4.1 Relationship between plant growth and nutrient supply 60
4.2 Generalised nutrient cycle system 61
4.3 Basic hydrological cycle 67
4.4 The carbon cycle: the fundamental cycle 68
4.5 The nitrogen cycle: an atmospheric link cycle 71
4.6 The phosphorus cycle: a solution cycle 72
5.1 Bluebell {Hyacinthoides non-scriptus) 84
5.2 Curves showing absorption of light with increasing depth underwater 86
6.1 Distribution of permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere 97
6.2 Vegetation in a typical Arctic area partly underlain by permafrost 98
7.1 Relative sizes of bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton 109
7.2 Holly fern {Polystichum lonchitis) 115
8.1 Tropical forest, savannah grassland and scrub biomes 124
8.2 Desert biome 126
8.3 Temperate forest, temperate grassland and Mediterranean biomes 128
8.4 Northern coniferous forest biome 131
8.5 Mountain and tundra biomes 132
10.1 Wadi Allaqi area of southern Egypt 162
11.1 Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide 1800 to 1980 175
Tables
2.1 Combinations of environmental stress and disturbance producing three
primary response strategies in plants 33
3.1 Productive regions of the oceans 47
3.2 Environmental controls on primary production 47
3.3 Comparative annual productivity of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems 48
8.1 Global patterns of gross primary production 120
8.2 Primary production rates by latitude North and South of the equator 122
8.3 Plant strategies in drought conditions 127
10.1 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 154
10.2 The characteristics of desertification 159
11.1 World population growth since 1650 171
Boxes
1.1 Hierarchy of life: level of integration and links 4
1.2 Gaia hypothesis 10
1.3 Sir Arthur Tansley: a founder of modern ecology 12
1.4 System theory definitions 15
1.5 Gaseous composition of the troposphere 19
1.6 Comparison of the Earth s atmosphere with life (now) and without life 20
1.7 Properties of water and their significance for ecosystems 21
2.1 Isoetids in lake vegetation: an example of a functional group of plants 31
2.2 Uninhabitable systems 34
2.3 Logistic population growth model 37
2.4 Demostat model of density-dependent population regulation 39
2.5 Trophic structure of an ecosystem: birch woodland 40
3.1 Solar energy supply for ecosystem functioning 44
3.2 Geothermal energy 44
3.3 Autotrophic organisms 46
3.4 Energy flow through an ecosystem: summary 49
4.1 Major, macro- and micro-nutrients, showing the relative proportions
of each element in the biosphere 59
4.2 Redox potential 63
4.3 Colloids and the soil 65
5.1 Salt marsh zonation 79
5.2 Strategies for surviving salt stress in plants 79
5.3 Pressures on plant survival in a stressed ecosystem 81
6.1 Disturbance: general principles 93
6.2 Stages in a typical plant succession 94
6.3 Tidal cycle 101
7.1 High competition ecosystems 107
7.2 Phytoplankton 109
8.1 The Koppen climatic classification 119
8.2 The Water Framework Directive (WFD) 134
9.1 Hedgerows and shelterbelts 142
9.2 Heather moorlands and their management by burning 143
9.3 The case of the alien fish species Ruffe {Gymnocephalm cermis) in
Loch Lomond. Scotland 146
10.1 Davisian cycle: an explanatory and critical commentary 155
10.2 Environmental and ecological changes in the Wadi Allaqi area of
south-eastern Egypt 161
10.3 The problem of forest clearance in Amazonia: an evaluation of the
issues 165
Boxes • xiii
11.1 Definition and classification of resources 173
11.2 Human impacts on the biosphere and societal values: a question of
communications 174
11.3 Atmospheric particulates and their effects on people and ecosystems 179
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