Nature's Services : Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

Contributors xi Preface xv Gretchen C. Daily Perspectives on Nature's Services xvii John Peterson Myers Joshua S. Reichert Introduction: What Are Ecosystem Services? 1(10) Gretchen C. Daily Ecosystem Services: A Fragmentary History 11(12) Harold A. Mooney Paul R. Ehrlich Part I: Economic Issues of Valuation Valuing Ecosystem Services: Philosophical Bases and Empirical Methods 23(26) Lawrence H. Goulder Donald Kennedy Valuing Ecosystem Services with Efficiency, Fairness, and Sustainability as Goals 49(22) Robert Costanza Carl Folke Part II: Overarching Services The Interaction of Climate and Life 71(22) Susan E. Alexander Stephen H. Schneider Kalen Lagerquist Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 93(20) David Tilman Ecosystem Services Supplied by Soil 113(20) Gretchen C. Daily Pamela A. Matson Peter M. Vitousek Services Provided by Pollinators 133(18) Gary Paul Nabhan Stephen L. Buchmann Natural Pest Control Services and Agriculture 151(26) Rosamond L. Naylor Paul R. Ehrlich Part III: Services Supplied by Major Biomes Marine Ecosystem Services 177(18) Charles H. Peterson Jane Lubchenco Freshwater Ecosystem Services 195(20) Sandra Postel Stephen Carpenter The World's Forests and Their Ecosystem Services 215(22) Norman Myers Ecosystem Services in Grasslands 237(18) Osvaldo E. Sala Jose M. Paruelo Part IV: Case Studies Biodiversity's Genetic Library 255(20) Norman Myers Impacts of Marine Resource Extraction on Ecosystem Services and Sustainability 275(20) Les Kaufman Paul Dayton Ecosystem Services in Subsistence Economies and Conservation of Biodiversity 295(16) Kamaljit S. Bawa Madhav Gadgil Ecosystem Services in a Modern Economy: Gunnison Country, Colorado 311(18) Andrew Wilcox John Harte Water Quality Improvement by Wetlands 329(16) Katherine C. Ewel Services Supplied by South African Fynbos Ecosystems 345(20) Richard M. Cowling Robert Costanza Steven I. Higgins Part V: Conclusion Valuing and Safeguarding Earth's Life-Support Systems 365(10) Gretchen C. Daily Index 375