Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : frameworks, methodologies, and integration / edited by Martin Solan, Rebecca J. Aspden and David M. Paterson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marine biodiversity : its past development, present status, and future threats / Stephen Widdicombe and Paul J. Somerfield -- Biodiversity in the context of ecosystem function / Anne E. Magurran -- Ecosystem function and co-evolution of terminology in marine science and management / David M. Paterson, Emma C. Defew, and Julia Jabour -- Ecological consequences of declining biodiversity : a biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) framework for marine systems / Shahid Naeem -- Lessons from the fossil record : the Ediacaran radiation, the Cambrian radiation, and the end-Permian mass extinction / Stephen Q. Dornbos [and others] -- The analysis of biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments : partitioning richness and density-dependent effects / Lisandro Beneditti-Cecchi and Elena Maggi -- The importance of body size, abundance, and food-web structure for ecosystem functioning / Mark C. Emmerson -- Effects of biodiversity-environment conditions on the interpretation of biodiversity-function relations / Jasmin A. Godbold -- Extending the approaches of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to the deep ocean / Roberto Danovaro -- Incorporating extinction risk and realistic biodiversity futures : implementation of trait-based extinction scenarios / Martin Solan [and others] -- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : an ecosystem-level approach / David Raffaelli and Alan M. Friedlander -- Multitrophic biodiversity and the responses of marine ecosystems to global change / J. Emmett Duffy, John J. Stachowicz, and John F. Bruno -- Reality check : issues of scale and abstraction in biodiversity research, and potential solutions / Tasman P. Crowe, Matthew E.S. Bracken, and Nessa E. O'Connor -- Why bother going outside : the role of observational studies in understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships / Simon F. Thrush and Andrew M. Lohrer -- Implementing an ecosystem approach : predicting and safeguarding marine biodiversity futures / Alison R. Holt [and others].