Communities and ecosystems: linking the aboveground and belowground components
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1. Verfasser: Wardle, David A. 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c2002
Schriftenreihe:Monographs in population biology 34
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-386)
Acknowledgments -- - 1 - Introduction -- - 2 - The 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 -- - The 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
5 - Completing the circle : how soil food web effects are manifested aboveground -- - The 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 - The regulation and function of biological diversity -- - Assessment of soil diversity -- - Stress and disturbance as controls of soil diversity -- - Biotic controls of diversity -- - The 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
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