Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function - Paperback

by Ernst-Detlef Schulze (Editor), Harold A. Mooney (Editor)

The increasing loss of biodiversity through the deterioration of nature and eradication of animal and plant species by man has threatening and, in part, obvious consequences. Ecologists and population biologists deal with various aspects of the topic. In particular, the meaning of biodiversity for the functioning of an ecosystem is treated.