LEADER 04324nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910786147003321 005 20211028030423.0 010 $a1-299-05147-2 010 $a1-4008-4729-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400847297 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330882 035 $a(EBL)1113398 035 $a(OCoLC)828794191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11521628 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818446 035 $a(PQKB)10264366 035 $a(OCoLC)827947191 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37132 035 $a(DE-B1597)447345 035 $a(OCoLC)979686150 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400847297 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1113398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10653092 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113398 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330882 100 $a20011016d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommunities and ecosystems$b[electronic resource] $elinking the aboveground and belowground components /$fDavid A. Wardle 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 0 $aMonographs in Population Biology ;$v34 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-07486-0 311 0 $a0-691-07487-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 309-386). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tCHAPTER ONE: Introduction --$tCHAPTER TWO. The Soil Food Web --$tCHAPTER THREE. Plant Species Control of Soil Biota and Processes --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Belowground Consequences of Aboveground Food Web Interactions --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Completing the Circle --$tCHAPTER SIX. The Regulation and Function of Biological Diversity --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Global Change Phenomena in an Aboveground-Belowground Context --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Underlying Themes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aMost of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as well as our climate and atmosphere. Indeed, all terrestrial ecosystems consist of interdependent aboveground and belowground compartments. Despite this, aboveground and belowground ecology have been conducted largely in isolation. This book represents the first major synthesis to focus explicitly on the connections between aboveground and belowground subsystems--and their importance for community structure and ecosystem functioning. David Wardle integrates a vast body of literature from numerous fields--including population ecology, ecosystem ecology, ecophysiology, ecological theory, soil science, and global-change biology--to explain the key conceptual issues relating to how aboveground and belowground communities affect one another and the processes that each component carries out. He then applies these concepts to a host of critical questions, including the regulation and function of biodiversity as well as the consequences of human-induced global change in the form of biological invasions, extinctions, atmospheric carbon-dioxide enrichment, nitrogen deposition, land-use change, and global warming. Through ambitious theoretical synthesis and a tremendous range of examples, Wardle shows that the key biotic drivers of community and ecosystem properties involve linkages between aboveground and belowground food webs, biotic interaction, the spatial and temporal dynamics of component organisms, and, ultimately, the ecophysiological traits of those organisms that emerge as ecological drivers. His conclusions will propel theoretical and empirical work throughout ecology. 410 0$aMonographs in Population Biology 606 $aSoil ecology 606 $aFood chains (Ecology) 615 0$aSoil ecology. 615 0$aFood chains (Ecology) 676 $a577.5/7 686 $aWI 5000$2rvk 700 $aWardle$b David A.$f1963-$01492749 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786147003321 996 $aCommunities and ecosystems$93715401 997 $aUNINA