Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stand structure in terrestrial ecosystems / Frank W. Davis and Dar Roberts -- Methods of estimating aboveground net primary productivity / Osvaldo E. Sala and Amy T. Austin -- Global terrestrial gross and net primary productivity from the Earth Observing System / Steven W. Running ... {et al.} -- Methods of estimating belowground net primary productivity / William K. Lauenroth -- The measurement of primary productivity in aquatic ecosystems / Robert W. Howarth and Anthony F. Michaels -- Benthic respiration in aquatic sediments / Bo Thamdrup and Donald E. Canfield -- Decomposition and soil organic matter dynamics / G. Philip Robertson and Eldor A. Paul -- Stable isotope tracers and mathematical models in soil organic matter studies / Ronald Amundson and W. Troy Baisden -- Microbial carbon cycling in pelagic ecosystems : microbial methods for ecosystem scientists / Jonathan J. Cole -- Herbivory in terrestrial ecosystems / Mart in Oesterheld and Samuel J. McNaughton -- Canopy fluxes / John B. Moncrieff, Paul G. Jarvis, and Ricardo Valentini -- Assessing ecosystem-level water relations through stable isotope ratio analyses / James R. Ehleringer, John Roden, and Todd E. Dawson -- Measuring water availability and uptake in ecosystem studies / Robert B. Jackson, Laurel J. Anderson, and William T. Pockman -- Nutrient transformations / John M. Stark -- Biogenic trace gas exchanges / Pamela Matson and Allen Goldstein -- Ecosystem nutrient balance and dynamics / Kate Lajtha -- Deposition of nutrients and pollutants to ecosystems / Lars O. Hedin -- Landscape and regional biogeochemistry : approaches / Ingrid C. Burke -- Nutrient manipulations in terrestrial ecosystems / Valerie T. Eviner, F. Stuart Chapin III, and Charles E. Vaughn -- Biotic manipulation of aquatic ecosystems / Daniel E. Schindler, Brian R. Herwig, and Stephen R. Carpenter -- Biotic manipulations involving belowground animals / Diana H. Wall and O. James Reichman -- Assessing the effects of acidification on aquatic ecosystems : insights from lake experiments / Thomas M. Frost and Janet M. Fischer -- Large-scale water manipulations / Paul J. Hanson -- Ecosystem climate manipulations / Karin P. Shen and John Harte -- Ecosystem modeling / Herman H. Shugart -- Stoichiometric analysis of pelagic ecosystems : the biogeochemistry of planktonic food webs / James J. Elser.