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Agriculture
Agroecosystem
Agroforestry
Author_David A. Wardle
Azotobacter
Bacteria
Biodiversity
Biological pest control
Biomass (ecology)
Botrytis cinerea
Bromus tectorum
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Climax community
Decomposer
Detritus
Dikaryon
Earthworm
Ecology
Ecosystem
Ecosystem engineer
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Flora
Food chain
Food web
Fungicide
Fungus
Grassland
Grazing
Green manure
Herbivore
Humus
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Invasive species
J. Philip Grime
Microbiota
Mineralization (biology)
Monoculture
Mortierella
Mycorrhiza
Nematode
Nitrogen
Nutrient
Organism
Paxillus involutus
Pesticide
Pesticide application
Plant
Plant community
Plant ecology
Plant functional type
Plant nutrition
Plant pathology
Population cycle
Predation
Primary succession
Rhizosphere
Root nodule
Saprotrophic nutrition
Shrub
Soil
Soil biology
Soil carbon
Soil ecology
Soil organic matter
Tallgrass prairie
Transplant experiment
Trichoderma harzianum
Trichoderma viride
Trophic cascade
Trophic level
Tussock grassland
Vegetation
Weed control
Product details
- ISBN 9780691074870
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
David A. Wardle is Professor of Soil and Plant Ecology at the University of Sheffield and has published widely on biotic interactions, biodiversity, and soil biology.
