Ecosystems (Hardcover, 2 ed)

1. The Nature of Ecosystems  2. How Ecosystems Work: Operational and Support Functions  3. Energy Flow and Energetics  4. Material Cycles in Ecosystems  5. Ecosystems in High Stress Environments: Meeting Environmental Challenges  6. The Role of Disturbance and Succession in Ecosystem Functioning  7. Life in a Crowd: Productive and Intermediate Ecosystems  8. Biomes: World Ecosystem Types  9. Human Impacts on Ecosystems: Humans as an Ecological Factor  10. Large Scale Impacts on Ecosystems  11. Global Environmental Change: Ecosystem Response and Biosphere Impacts