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Humans have directly modified half of the ice-free terrestrial surface and use 40% of terrestrial production. We are causing the sixth major extinction event in the history of life on Earth. With the Earth’s climate, flora, and fauna changing rapidly, there is a pressing need to understand terrestrial ecosystem processes and their sensitivity to environmental and biotic changes. This book offers a framework to do just that. Ecosystem ecology regards living organisms, including people, and the elements of their environment as components of a single integrated system. The comprehensive coverage in this textbook examines the central processes at work in terrestrial ecosystems, including their freshwater components. It traces the flow of energy, water, carbon, and nutrients from their abiotic origins to their cycles through plants, animals, and decomposer organisms. As well as detailing the processes themselves, the book goes further to integrate them at various scales of magnitude—those of the ecosystem, the wider landscape and the globe. It synthesizes recent advances in ecology with established and emerging ecosystem theory to offer a wide-ranging survey of ecosystem patterns and processes in our terrestrial environment. Featuring review questions at the end of each chapter, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of ecological terms, Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology is a vitally relevant text suitable for study in all courses in ecosystem ecology. Resource managers and researchers in many fields will welcome its thorough presentation of ecosystem essentials.

Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Ecosystem Concept....Pages 3-22 Earth’s Climate System....Pages 23-62 Geology, Soils, and Sediments....Pages 63-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Water and Energy Balance....Pages 93-122 Carbon Inputs to Ecosystems....Pages 123-156 Plant Carbon Budgets....Pages 157-181 Decomposition and Ecosystem Carbon Budgets....Pages 183-228 Plant Nutrient Use....Pages 229-258 Nutrient Cycling....Pages 259-296 Trophic Dynamics....Pages 297-320 Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes....Pages 321-336 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 Temporal Dynamics....Pages 339-367 Landscape Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Dynamics....Pages 369-397 Front Matter....Pages 399-399 Changes in the Earth System....Pages 401-422 Managing and Sustaining Ecosystems....Pages 423-447 Back Matter....Pages 449-529

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