Forest Diversity and Function Temperate and Boreal Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael (Editor), Körner, Christian (Editor), Schulze, Ernst-Detlef (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 176
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geobiology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Plant ecology.; Forestry.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Biogeosciences.

One of the central research themes in ecology is evaluating the extent to which biological richness is necessary to sustain the Earth's system and the functioning of individual ecosystems. In this volume, for the first time, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in fores...