Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments

SCOPE has just published the synthesis book «Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments«. SCOPE is the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment established by ICSU. The book brings together leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to present scientific information that integrates soil and sediment disciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. It offers a framework for a new discipline that will allow future scientists to consider the linkages of biodiversity below-surface and how biota interact to provide the essential ecosystem services needed for sustainable soils and sediments. Contributors consider key questions regarding soils and sediments and the relationship between soil- and sediment- dwelling organisms and overall ecosystem functioning.
The book is an important new synthesis for scientists and researchers studying a range of topics, including global sustainability, conservation biology, taxonomy, erosion, extreme systems, food production, and related fields. In addition, it provides new insight and understanding for managers, policymakers, and others concerned with global environmental sustainability and global change issues.
«Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments» edited by Diana H. Wall, 2004 can be ordered at Island Press.