| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 392 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Monographs in population biology ; 34
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Monographs in population biology ; 34.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-386). |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Soil food web : biotic interactions and regulators -- Controls : top down, bottom up, and productivity -- Regulation by resources and predation in soil food webs -- Litter transformers, ecosystem engineers, and mutalisms -- Functionality of soil food webs -- Stability and temoral variability -- Synthesis -- 3. Plant species control of soil biota and processes -- Plant species effects on soil biota -- Links among plantspecies, soil biota, and soil processes -- Temporal and spatial variability -- Plant traits, strategies, and ecophysiological constraints -- Soil biotic responses to vegetation succession -- Synthesis -- 4. Belowground consequences of aboveground food web interactions -- Individual plant effects -- Dung and urine return -- Effects of palatability differences among plant species -- Spatial and temporal variability -- Consequences of predation of herbivores -- Transport of resources by aboveground consumers -- Synthesis. |
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5. Completing the circle : how soil food web effects are manifested aboveground -- Decomposer food web -- Nitrogen transformations -- Microbial associates of plant roots -- Root herbivores -- Physical effects of soil biota -- Soil biota effects on aboveground food webs -- Synthesis -- 6. Regulation and function of biological diversity -- Assessment of soil diversity -- Stress and disturbance as controls of soil diversity -- Biotic controls of diversity -- Enigma of soil diversity -- Diversity of soil organisms over larger spatial scales -- Biodiversity and ecosystem function -- Synthesis -- 7. Global change phenomena in an aboveground-belowground context -- Species losses and gains -- Land use changes -- Carbon dioxide enrichment and nitrogen deposition -- Global climate change -- Synthesis -- 8. Underlying themes -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as well as our climate and atmosphere. Indeed, all terrestrial ecosystems consist of interdependent aboveground and belowground compartments. Despite this, aboveground and belowground ecology have been conducted largely in isolation. This book represents the first major synthesis to focus explicitly on the connections between aboveground and belowground subsystems--and their importance for community structure and e. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soil ecology.
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Soil ecology. |
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Food chains (Ecology)
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Food chains (Ecology) |
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Soil. |
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Food Chain. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wardle, David A., 1963- Communities and ecosystems. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691074860 (DLC) 2001055403 (OCoLC)48390932 |
| ISBN |
9781400847297 (electronic book) |
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140084729X (electronic book) |
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0691074879 |
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9780691074870 |
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0691074860 |
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9780691074863 |
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0691074879 |
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9780691074870 |
| Standard No. |
9780691074870 |
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