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Textbook in PDF format This thought-provoking book introduces a way to study ecosystems that is resonant with current thinking in the fields of earth system science, geobiology, and planetology. Instead of organizing the subject around a hierarchical series of entities (e.g. genes, individuals, populations, species, communities, and the biosphere), the book provides an alternative process-based approach and proposes a truly planetary view of ecological science. It demonstrates how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level, specifically their involvement in control and feedback mechanisms. This enables the reader to reconsider fundamental ecological processes such as energy flow, guilds, trade-offs, carbon cycling, and photosynthesis, and to put them in a global (and even planetary) context. In so doing, the book places a much stronger emphasis on microorganisms. Since publication of the first edition in 2006, ever growing societal concern about environmental sustainability has ensured that the earth system science/Gaian approach has steadily gained traction. Its integration with ecology is now more important than ever if ecological science is to effectively contribute to the massive problems and future challenges associated with global environmental change. The Fundamental Processes in Ecology is an accessible text for senior undergraduates, graduate student seminar courses, and researchers in the fields of ecology, environmental sustainability, earth system science, evolutionary biology, palaeontology, history of life, astrobiology, planetology, climatology, geology, and physical geography. Preface Introduction Introducing the thought experiment The entangled bank The entity approach A process-based approach The Gaian effect Overview The Fundamental Processes Energy flow The second law of thermodynamics Schrödinger, entropy, and free energy Sources of free energy Maximum entropy production and planetary ecology Overview Multiple guilds The importance of waste The requirement for multiple guilds Predators and parasites Parasites introduce a potentially important mechanism for density-dependent regulation Other effects of parasites Overview Trade-offs and biodiversity The problem of biodiversity Trade-offs illustrated by human sporting performance Trade-offs in ecology Trade-offs and biodiversity The Gaian effect of biodiversity Overview Dispersal Tansley's beechwoods The evolution of dispersal Dispersal as a key process in ecology Dispersal at an astronomical scale? Overview Ecological hypercycles: covering a planet with life Darwin's earth worms Hypercycles in ecology Covering a planet with life Why would persistent restricted ecologies be unlikely? The end of life on a planet Overview Merging of organismal and ecological physiology From beavers to planetary ecology Daisyworld Examples of the role of life in planetary physiology on Earth The importance of biomass: an illustration from Earth's past Biomass and Gaia Overview Photosynthesis Quantification and mysticism in the seventeenth century The diversity of photosynthesis on Earth Photosynthesis and the Earth system Oxygen and the Earth system Is photosynthesis a fundamental process? Overview Carbon sequestration Carbon sequestration and landscape change in northwest England A tale of two cycles: short- and long-term carbon cycles The role of life: from geochemical cycles to biogeochemical cycles Co-evolution of plants and carbon dioxide on Earth Oxygen and carbon sequestration on Earth Humans and carbon sequestration Carbon sequestration as a fundamental process Overview Emerging Systems Nutrient cycling as an emergent property The paradox of the goldfish Trade-offs and in vitro evolution Emergence of biogeochemical cycles Cycling ratios and biotic plunder Overview Historical contingency and the development of planetary ecosystems Carus and the thunderbolt: chance and change in history Historical contingency and ecology Historical contingency and the Earth system Overview From processes to systems An Earth systems approach to ecology The trouble with Gaia Selection for Gaia? Conservation biology and the Earth system Concluding remarks Glossary The geological timescale References Index

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