Plant Functional Diversity: Organism traits, community structure, and ecosystem properties de Eric Garnier

Plant Functional Diversity: Organism traits, community structure, and ecosystem properties

Autor Eric Garnier, Marie-Laure Navas, Karl Grigulis

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2015

Relevanța acestui volum pentru programele de masterat și doctorat în ecologie vegetală, agronomie și biologia conservării este fundamentală, oferind cadrul teoretic necesar pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor ecosistemice actuale. Apreciem modul în care Plant Functional Diversity reușește să sintetizeze două decenii de progrese științifice, trecând de la viziunea tradițională a diversității taxonomice la o analiză riguroasă a trăsăturilor funcționale care determină răspunsul plantelor la mediu.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Functional Plant Ecology de Francisco Pugnaire vor aprecia modul în care acest volum actualizează dezbaterile privind structura comunităților, punând un accent mai mare pe serviciile ecosistemice livrate societății umane. În timp ce alte lucrări se limitează la descrierea structurilor, autorii Eric Garnier, Marie-Laure Navas și Karl Grigulis propun un model conceptual integrat. Organizarea cărții urmează o progresie logică: primele capitole stabilesc cadrul metodologic și definițiile esențiale, urmate de o analiză a gradienților și a strategiilor ecologice. Capitolele finale sunt dedicate aplicabilității practice, abordând diversitatea funcțională în agricultură — cu studii pe pajiști și buruieni — și oferind soluții pentru gestionarea seturilor complexe de date. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care este tratată legătura dintre trăsăturile plantelor și proprietățile ecosistemice, transformând o disciplină teoretică într-un instrument util pentru gestionarea durabilă a resurselor naturale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198757375
ISBN-10: 0198757379
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 204 x 252 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această lucrare studenților și cercetătorilor care doresc să depășească simpla identificare a speciilor și să înțeleagă rolul lor funcțional. Cititorul câștigă o metodologie clară pentru analizarea modului în care plantele influențează sănătatea ecosistemelor, fiind un instrument indispensabil pentru proiecte de cercetare în agroecologie sau conservare, unde deciziile trebuie fundamentate pe date despre trăsăturile organismelor și răspunsul lor la schimbările de mediu.

Despre autor

Autorii volumului sunt cercetători recunoscuți în domeniul ecologiei funcționale. Eric Garnier și colegii săi, Marie-Laure Navas și Karl Grigulis, au contribuit semnificativ la dezvoltarea metodelor de analiză a trăsăturilor plantelor în ultimele decenii. Eric Garnier deține expertiză în științe și tehnici industriale și pedagogice, activând în regiunea Nantes, și este una dintre vocile autoritare în promovarea abordării bazate pe trăsături pentru înțelegerea sistemelor ecologice complexe, activitatea sa fiind esențială pentru integrarea ecologiei teoretice în aplicații practice de agronomie.

Descriere

The first book to present the rationale for a trait-based approach to functional diversity in the context of comparative plant ecology
Addresses a number of highly debated questions in plant ecology, pertaining to plant responses to their environment, controls on plant community structure, ecosystem properties, and the services these deliver to human societies
Ideal graduate seminar course, written by three renowned researchers in the field

Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be considered for a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes. This novel book demonstrates the advantages of adopting a functional approach to diversity in order to improve our understanding of the functioning of ecological systems and their components. The focus is on plants, which are major components of these systems, and for which the functional approach has led to major scientific advances over the last 20 years.

Plant Functional Diversity presents the rationale for a trait-based approach to functional diversity in the context of comparative plant ecology and agroecology. It demonstrates how this approach can be used to address a number of highly debated questions in plant ecology pertaining to plant responses to their environment, controls on plant community structure, ecosystem properties, and the services these deliver to human societies. This research level text will be of particular relevance and use to graduate students and professional researchers in plant ecology, agricultural sciences and conservation biology.

Recenzii

Each of the ten chapters is excellently structured... The book is also nicely illustrated, extremely well referenced and has a useful index. In a nutshell, the book is an absolute must-read for graduate students, ecologists, agricultural scientists and conservation biologists interested in the functional approach to biological diversity.
The book is well written with good examples, figures and conceptual graphs to explain theoretical and applied concepts and effects of diversity... Plant functional diversity is likely to be a key reference when studying and synthesising information about plant functional diversity and its effects... I will certainly both use and recommend this book.
This book is a convincing synthesis of the principles of plant functional ecology in that it provides a profound introduction and theoretical background to the field and lists application possibilities ... It is an excellent textbook for students and will also be useful for researchers.
I expect this book to be the best entry point for any researcher interested in trait-based plant ecology. It provides an authoritative overview of trait-based ecology, while simultaneously revealing the power and limitations of this field as it currently stands. By providing a concise and nicely illustrated volume, the authors have done a tremendous service to the field.
This book lays out with impressive clarity, depth, and breadth the conceptual framework of plant functional diversity as it stands today ... The book provides a definitive reading for a graduate-level seminar on plant functional diversity and an excellent desk reference for any biologist interested in the evolutionary and ecological implications of trait variation.
Functional ecology has proven productive in understanding ecosystem structure and function, but currently, it is often not widely addressed in general ecology texts. Therefore, this book will be useful to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. ... Highly recommended.

Notă biografică

Eric Garnier is a researcher in plant functional ecology. His work on plant functional diversity is based on a combination of conceptual, experimental and methodological approaches, and contributes to the broad field of trait-based comparative ecology. He has pioneered some of the developments of conceptual models of relationships between plant functional traits, plant function, and biogeochemistry, and has participated in the development of standardized approaches to the measurement of plant traits towards a worldwide application. More recently, he has contributed to the emergence of ecoinformatics at the French national scale, especially through his work as the Director of CEntre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity.Marie-Laure Navas works on the identification of the functional diversity of plant species. More precisely, her work focuses on i) the identification of assembly rules of plant communities due to biotic and abiotic processes; ii) the characterization of changes in functional structure of plant communities along environmental gradients; iii) the identification of traits related to competition and facilitation ability of plants. These questions are addressed with the example of managed grasslands, especially in the French Mediterranean area. Recently, Marie-Laure Navas also developed collaborations with researchers in crop science and weed science, in order to test the relevance of the functional approach for developing new cropping systems based on more ecological-directed regulation of pests.Karl Grigulis works as a research engineer in the Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine in Grenoble, France. Initially working as an agronomist in south-east Australia on topics of population ecology using pasture weeds as model systems, more recently in France he participates in projects focussed on functional and community ecology, in particular the field assessment of community functional structure as a determinant of ecosystem services.

Cuprins

1: A functional approach to biological diversity
2: Trait-based ecology: definitions, methods, and a conceptual framework
3: The functional characterisation of plants
4: Gradients, response traits, and ecological strategies
5: A functional approach to plant community structure
6: Plant traits and ecosystem properties
7: Functional diversity and ecosystem services
8: Functional diversity in agriculture: the cases of grasslands and crop weeds
9: Managing functional diversity data
10: Perspectives for functional diversity research