Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes

CoverPage_978-0-387-24089-3......Page 1
front-matter......Page 2
TitlePage......Page 4
CopyRight......Page 5
Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Contibutors......Page 14
Participants......Page 20
1 Ecosystem Function inHeterogeneous Landscapes......Page 26
Section I: Challenges and Conceptual Approaches......Page 30
2 Causes and Consequencesof Spatial Heterogeneityin Ecosystem Function......Page 34
3 The Template: Patterns andProcesses of Spatial Variation......Page 56
4 Thoughts on the Generation andImportance of Spatial Heterogeneityin Ecosystems and Landscapes......Page 74
5 Reciprocal Cause and EffectBetween EnvironmentalHeterogeneity and TransportProcesses......Page 92
Section II: Perspectives from DifferentDisciplines......Page 116
6 Population Ecology in SpatiallyHeterogeneous Environments......Page 120
7 Heterogeneity in HydrologicProcesses......Page 144
8 Spatial Heterogeneity in InfectiousDisease Epidemics......Page 162
9 Spatial Heterogeneity and ItsRelation to Processes in theUpper Ocean......Page 190
Section IIII: llustrations of Heterogeneity andEcosystem Function......Page 208
10 Heterogeneity in Arid andSemiarid Lands......Page 214
11 Formation of Soil-VegetationPatterns......Page 232
12 Spatial Patterning ofSoil Carbon Storage AcrossBoreal Landscapes......Page 254
13 Heterogeneity in UrbanEcosystems......Page 282
14 Origins, Patterns, and Importance ofHeterogeneity in Riparian Systems......Page 304
15 Flowpaths as Integratorsof Heterogeneity in Streamsand Landscapes......Page 335
16 Causes and Consequences ofSpatial Heterogeneity in Lakes......Page 354
Section IV: Application of Frameworksand Concepts......Page 374
17 The Importance of Multiscale SpatialHeterogeneity in Wildland FireManagement and Research......Page 378
18 The Role of Spatial Heterogeneityin the Management of FreshwaterResources......Page 392
19 The Roles of Spatial Heterogeneityand Ecological Processes inConservation Planning......Page 414
Section V: Synthesis......Page 432
20 Challenges in Understandingthe Functions of EcologicalHeterogeneity......Page 436
21 Spatial Pattern and EcosystemFunction......Page 452
22 Spatial Heterogeneity:Past, Present, and Future......Page 468
23 Heterogeneity and EcosystemFunction......Page 476
24 Conceptual Frameworks: Plan for aHalf-Built House......Page 488
Index......Page 496