Editors:
- Based on 15 years of comprehensive interdisciplinary research
- Examines the effects of different land use measures on ecosystem services
- Offers a sustainable land use portfolio with model character for similar regions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 221)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Current Situation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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Front Matter
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About this book
An interdisciplinary research unit consisting of 30 teams in the natural, economic and social sciences analyzed biodiversity and ecosystem services of a mountain rainforest ecosystem in the hotspot of the tropical Andes, with special reference to past, current and future environmental changes. The group assessed ecosystem services using data from ecological field and scenario-driven model experiments, and with the help of comparative field surveys of the natural forest and its anthropogenic replacement system for agriculture.
The book offers insights into the impacts of environmental change on various service categories mentioned in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005): cultural, regulating, supporting and provisioning ecosystem services. Examples focus on biodiversity of plants and animals including trophic networks, and abiotic/biotic parameters such as soils, regional climate, water, nutrient and sediment cycles. The types of threats considered include land use and climate changes, as well as atmospheric fertilization. In terms of regulating and provisioning services, the emphasis is primarily on water regulation and supply as well as climate regulation and carbon sequestration. With regard to provisioning services, the synthesis of the book provides science-based recommendations for a sustainable land use portfolio including several options such as forestry, pasture management and the practices of indigenous peoples. In closing, the authors show how they integrated the local society by pursuing capacity building in compliance with the CBD-ABS (Convention on Biological Diversity - Access and Benefit Sharing), in the form of education and knowledge transfer for application.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book is rooted in interdisciplinary ecosystem research. It provides a plethora of information on the structure and functioning of ecosystems, based on comparative field surveys and ecological experiments in pasture and forest environments. … The volume reflects the editors’ and authors’ commitment to sharing their unique experience with a broader audience. It is a fine book, an extraordinary, well-written, and well-produced synthesis of interdisciplinary work—and it educates.” (Sandra Luque, Mountain Research and Development (MRD), Vol. 34 (3), August, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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, Faculty of Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Jörg Bendix
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, Department of Plant Physiology and Bayre, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Erwin Beck
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, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Achim Bräuning
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, Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecolo, Technical University of Dresden, Tharandt, Germany
Franz Makeschin
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, Institute of Silviculture, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
Reinhard Mosandl
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, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Stefan Scheu
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, Geographic Institute of the University o, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Wolfgang Wilcke
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador
Editors: Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Bräuning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu, Wolfgang Wilcke
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38137-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38136-2Published: 19 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42841-8Published: 07 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38137-9Published: 09 July 2013
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 440
Topics: Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Climate Change, Environmental Management, Conservation Biology/Ecology