Forest Diversity and Function Temperate and Boreal Systems
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 biodi
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Edited by M.M. Caldwell, Logan, USA G. Heldmaier, Marburg, Germany R.B. Jackson, Durham, USA O.L. Lange, Würzburg, Germany H.A. Mooney, Stanford, USA E.-D. Schulze, Jena, Germany U. Sommer, Kiel, Germany
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M. Scherer-Lorenzen Ch. Körner E.-D. Schulze (Eds.)
Forest Diversity and Function Temperate and Boreal Systems
With 102 Figures and 22 Tables
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Dr. Michael Scherer-Lorenzen Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences Institute of Plant Sciences Universitätsstr. 2 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Christian Körner University of Basel Institute of Botany Schönbeinstr. 6 4056 Basel, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Hans-Knöll-Str. 10 07745 Jena, Germany
ISSN 0070-8356 ISBN 3-540-22191-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Foreword
This past decade has witnessed a flurry of research activity focusing on the significance of the diversity of organisms regarding the capacity of ecosystems to capture resources and their role in regulating the stability and resilience of these systems. The results of this activity have been chronicled, debated and summarized, as noted in this volume. This discourse has been colored, of course, by the kinds of information available. Unfortunately, there are few results from explicit experiments on the diversity/functioning/stability relationships. We have had to turn to “experiments” that nature has provided, i.e. observing functioning in systems of varying diversity. However, as noted in this volume, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions from observational studies because of
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