| 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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Publication information:
Book title: From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis.
Contributors: Michel Loreau - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2010.
Page number: v.
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