Nature's services : societal dependence on natural ecosystems / edited by Gretchen C. Daily.

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1997], ©1997.

xx, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Perspectives on nature's services / John Peterson Myers, Joshua S. Reichert -- Introduction: What are ecosystem services? / Gretchen C. Daily -- Ecosystem services: a fragmentary history / Harold A. Mooney and Paul R. Ehrlich -- Valuing ecosystem services: philosophical bases and empirical methods / Lawrence H. Goulder and Donald Kennedy -- Valuing ecosystem services with efficiency, fairness, and sustainability as goals / Robert Costanza and Carl Folke -- The interaction of climate and life / Susan E. Alexander, Stephen H. Schneider, and Kalen Lagerquist -- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning / David Tilman -- Ecosystem services supplied by soil / Gretchen C. Daily, Pamela A. Matson, and Peter M. Vitousek -- Services provided by pollinators / Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen L. Buchmann -- Natural pest control services and agriculture / Rosamond L. Naylor and Paul R. Ehrlich -- Marine ecosystem services / Charles H. Peterson and Jane Lubchenco -- Freshwater ecosystem services / Sandra Postel and Stephen Carpenter -- The world's forests and their ecosystem services / Norman Myers -- Ecosystem services in grasslands / Osvaldo E. Sala and Jose M. Paruelo -- Biodiversity's genetic library / Norman Myers -- Impacts of marine resource extraction on ecosystem services and sustainability / Les Kaufman and Paul Dayton -- Ecosystem services in subsistence economies and conservation of biodiversity / Kamaljit S. Bawa and Madhav Gadgil -- Ecosystem services in a modern economy: Gunnison County, Colorado / Andrew Wilcox and John Harte -- Water quality improvement by wetlands / Katherine C. Ewel -- Services supplied by South African fynbos ecosystems / Richard M. Cowling, Robert Costanza, and Steven I. Higgins -- Valuing and safeguarding earth's life-support systems / Gretchen C. Daily.

Includes bibliographical references and index