Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
Preface: On Unifying Approaches in Ecology ..................... ix
1 Population and Ecosystem Approaches in Ecology ............... 1
2 The Maintenance and Functional Consequences of Species
Diversity ................................................... 19
3 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning ...................... 56
4 Food Webs, Interaction Webs, and Ecosystem Functioning ...... 79
5 Stability and Complexity of Ecosystems: New Perspectives
on an Old Debate ........................................... 123
6 Material Cycling and the Overall Functioning of
Ecosystems ................................................. 164
7 Spatial Dynamics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Functioning: Metacommunities and Metaecosystems ............ 196
8 Evolution of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Properties ........... 225
9 Postface: Toward an Integrated, Predictive Ecology ......... 260
References .................................................... 269
Index ......................................................... 291
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