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Table of Contents: “…Peatlands and the Boreal Forest -- Functional Characteristics and Indicators of Boreal Peatlands -- The Postglacial Development of Boreal and Subarctic Peatlands -- The Role of Sphagnum in Peatland Development and Persistence -- Peatland Fauna -- The Role of Fungi in Boreal Peatlands -- Decomposition in Boreal Peatlands -- Primary Production in Boreal Peatlands -- Carbon in Boreal Peatlands -- The Nitrogen Cycle in Boreal Peatlands -- Phosphorous in Boreal Peatlands -- Sulfur Cycling in Boreal Peatlands: from Acid Rain to Global Climate Change -- The Hydrology of Peatlands -- Modeling Ecosystem Processes and Peat Accumulation in Boreal Peatlands -- Forestry and Boreal Peatlands -- Disturbance in Boreal Peatlands -- Restoration of Degraded Boreal Peatlands -- Boreal Peatland Ecosystems: Our Carbon Heritage.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Phenological Phenomena -- Climatic and Phenological Controls of the Carbon and Energy Balances of Three Contrasting Boreal Forest Ecosystems in Western Canada -- Characterizing the Seasonal Dynamics of Plant Community Photosynthesis Across a Range of Vegetation Types -- The Phenology of Gross Ecosystem Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration in Temperate Hardwood and Conifer Chronosequences -- Phenological Differences Between Understory and Overstory -- Phenology of Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange for Deciduous and Coniferous Forests in Southern and Northern New England -- Influence of Phenology and Land Management on Biosphere-Atmosphere Isotopic CO2 Exchange -- Biological Feedbacks -- Phenology of Plant Production in the Northwestern Great Plains: Relationships with Carbon Isotope Discrimination, Net Ecosystem Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration -- Is Temporal Variation of Soil Respiration Linked to the Phenology of Photosynthesis? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem loss -- Pt. 2. Biodiversity insecurity -- Pt. 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Preliminary estimates of the export of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (EPA+DHA) from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems -- Biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in aquatic ecosystems: general pathways and new directions -- Health and condition in fish: the influence of lipids on membrane competency and immune response -- Lipids in marine copepods: latitudinal characteristics and perspective to global warming -- Tracing aquatic food webs using fatty acids: from qualitative indicators to quantitative determination -- Essential fatty acids in aquatic food webs -- Human life: caught in the food web.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Eutrophication in coastal marine ecosystems: towards better understanding and management strategies -- Eutrophication and the macroscope -- Ecosystem thresholds with hypoxia -- Nutrient enrichment and fisheries exploitation: interactive effects on estuarine living resources and their management -- Assessment of the eutrophication status of transitional, coastal and marine waters within OSPAR -- Can the EU agri-environmental aid program be extended into the coastal zone to combat eutrophication? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Conceptual Framework -- A Framework for Understanding Change -- Managing Ecosystems Sustainably: The Key Role of Resilience -- Livelihoods and Human Well-Being during Social-Ecological Change -- Adaptive Co-management in Social-Ecological Governance -- Transformations in Ecosystem Stewardship -- Stewarding Ecosystems for Society -- Conservation, Community, and Livelihoods: Sustaining, Renewing, and Adapting Cultural Connections to the Land -- Forest Systems: Living with Long-Term Change -- Drylands: Coping with Uncertainty, Thresholds, and Changes in State -- Freshwaters: Managing Across Scales in Space and Time -- Oceans and Estuaries: Managing the Commons -- Coastal Marine Systems: Conserving Fish and Sustaining Community Livelihoods with Co-management -- Managing Food Production Systems for Resilience -- Managing Densely Settled Social-Ecological Systems -- The Earth System: Sustaining Planetary Life-Support Systems -- Integration and Synthesis -- Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Integration of ecophysiological processes to stand dynamics -- Plant responses to elevated CO2 concentration at different scales: leaf, whole plant, canopy, and population -- Abies population dynamics simulated using a functional-structural tree model -- Estimation of aboveground biomass and net biomass increment in a cool temperate forest on a landscape scale -- Latitudinal/altitudinal transect of East Asia -- Dynamics, productivity and species richness of tropical rainforests along elevational and edaphic gradients on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo -- Pattern of changes in species diversity, structure and dynamics of forest ecosystems along latitudinal gradients in East Asia -- Local coexistence of tree species and the dynamics of global distribution pattern along an environmental gradient: a simulation study -- Scaling up from shifting-gap mosaic to geographic distribution in the modeling of forest dynamics -- Monitoring and modeling atmosphere-forest-soil processes -- CO2 exchange in a temperate Japanese cypress forest compared with that in a cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest -- Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan -- Seasonal variation in stomatal conductance and physiological factors observed in a secondary warm-temperate forest -- Forest-lake interface in watershed systems -- Biogeochemical and hydrological controls on carbon export from a forested catchment in central Japan -- Dissolved organic carbon and nitrate concentrations in streams: a useful index indicating carbon and nitrogen availability in catchments -- The production-to-respiration ratio and its implication in Lake Biwa, Japan -- Dynamics of methane in mesotrophic Lake Biwa, Japan.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The North-Western Negev -- Geological Background of the Nizzana Area -- Geo-Ecology of the North-Western Negev Sand Field -- Formation and Geomorphology of the North-Western Negev Sand Dunes -- The Regional Climatic Setting -- Soil Characteristicsand Pattern of the Nizzana Research Site -- Land Use and its Effect on the Mobilization and Stabilization of the North-Western Negev Sand Dunes -- Ecosystem Patterns -- The Flora of the Nizzana Research Site -- The Vegetation of the Nizzana Research Site -- A Glance on the Fauna of Nizzana -- Biological Crusts -- Land Cover in the Nizzana Sandy Arid Ecosystem. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Prologue: environmental changes and ecosystem effects: two historical examples -- I. History and Concepts -- History of ecosystem -- Ecology, ecosystem and ecosystem science -- Ecosystem ecology: cornerstones and scientific methodology -- II. …”

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