A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/13/2016
EAN 9781107046702, ISBN10: 110704670X

Hardcover, 492 pages, 25.7 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

Biogeoscience is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that aims to bring together biological and geophysical processes. This book builds an enhanced understanding of ecosystems by focusing on the integrative connections between ecological processes and the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Each chapter provides studies by researchers who have contributed to the biogeoscience synthesis, presenting the latest research on the relationships between ecological processes, such as conservation laws and heat and transport processes, and geophysical processes, such as hillslope, fluvial and aeolian geomorphology, and hydrology. Highlighting the value of biogeoscience as an approach to understand ecosystems, this is an ideal resource for researchers and students in both ecology and the physical sciences.

1. Introduction Edward A. Johnson and Yvonne E. Martin
Part I. Connecting Ecosystem and Geoscience Processes
2. Toward a general scaling theory for linking traits, stoichiometry, and body size to ecosystem function Brian J. Enquist, Sean T. Michaletz and Andrew J. Kerkhoff
Part II. Transport Processes and Conservation Budgets in Biogeoscience
3. Heat balances in ecological contexts Warren P. Porter
4. Water budgets in ecosystems John W. Pomeroy, Matthew K. MacDonald, Pablo F. Dornes and Robert Armstrong
Part III. Coupling Hillslope Geomorphology, Soils, Hydrology, and Ecosystems
5. Landscape evolution models and ecohydrologic processes Erkan Istanbulluoglu
6. Soil mantled hillslopes
intersections of geomorphology, soil science, and ecology Kyungsoo Yoo and Nic Jelinski
7. Interactions between precipitation and vegetation canopies Alexandra G. Ponette-González, Holly A. Ewing and Kathleen C. Weathers
8. Constraints on nutrient dynamics in terrestrial vegetation David Robinson
9. Evapotranspiration T. Andrew Black and Rachhpal S. Jassal
Part IV. Coupling Fluvial and Aeolian Geomorphology, Hydrology/Hydraulics, and Ecosystems
10. Mechanisms of flow and sediment transport in fluvial ecosystems
physical and ecological consequences Brett Eaton and Jordan Rosenfeld
11. Measuring the hydraulic landscapes of stream-dwelling invertebrates for ecological research Jill Lancaster
12. Salt marsh ecosystems
tidal flow, vegetation, and carbon dynamics Simon M. Mudd and Sergio Fagherazzi
13. Coastal dunes and vegetation dynamics Edward A. Johnson and Yvonne E. Martin
14. Biological control on geomorphology
a functional classification Dov Corenblit, Bruno Corbara and Johannes Steiger.