Linking Species & Ecosystems Book

	Forward
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Why Link Species and Ecosystems? A Perspective from Ecosystem Ecology	5
2	Organisms and Species as Complex Adaptive Systems: Linking the Biology of Populations with the Physics of Ecosystems	16
3	Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineers: Control of the Sediment Fabric, Inter-Individual Interactions, and Material Fluxes	29
4	Biogeochemical Processes and Marine Benthic Community Structure: Which Follows Which?	37
5	Marine Snow: What It Is and How It Affects Ecosystem Functioning	45
6	Floods, Food Chains, and Ecosystem Processes in Rivers	52
7	Population Variability in Experimental Ecosystems	61
8	How Important Are Consumer Species to Ecosystem Functioning?	72
9	Linking Tree Population Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Processes	84
10	Soil Organisms as Engineers: Microsite Modulation of Macroscale Processes	94
11	Soil Fauna: Linking Different Levels of the Ecological Hierarchy	107
12	Beaver as Engineers: Influences on Biotic and Abiotic Characteristics of Drainage Basins	117
13	Atmospheric Oxygen and the Biosphere	127
14	Linking Species and Ecosystems: Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers	141
15	Top-Level Carnivores and Ecosystem Effects: Questions and Approaches	151
16	Food Webs in Soil: An Interface Between Population and Ecosystem Ecology	159
17	Unifying Ecological Subdisciplines with Ecosystem Food Webs	166
18	Coupling the Dynamics of Species and Materials	176
19	Exploring Aggregation in Space and Time	194
20	Aggregation of Species Properties for Biogeochemical Modeling: Empirical Results	209
21	Functional Redundancy and Process Aggregation: Linking Ecosystems to Species	215
22	Species Compensation and Complementarity in Ecosystem Function	224
23	Elemental Stoichiometry of Species in Ecosystems	240
24	Species, Nitrogen, and Grassland Dynamics: The Constraints of Stuff	253
25	Relationships Between the Energetics of Species and Large-Scale Species Richness	263
26	Linking Species and Ecosystems: Where's Darwin?	273
27	Ecological Flow Chains and Ecological Systems: Concepts for Linking Species and Ecosystem Perspectives	280
28	The Relevance of Ecology: The Societal Context and Disciplinary Implications of Linkages Across Levels of Ecological Organization	297
29	Linking Species and Ecosystems Through Training of Students	306
30	Linking Species and Communities to Ecosystem Management: A Perspective from the Experimental Lakes Experience	313
31	Why Link Species Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Resource Management?	326
	References	336
	Index	371