TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bardgett,Richard D.
AU  - Wardle,David A.
TI  - Aboveground-Belowground Linkages: Biotic Interactions, Ecosystem Processes, and Global Change
T2  - Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution Series
SN  - 9780191591358
AV  - QH541.B37 2010 
U1  - 577.82 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Biotic communities
KW  - Species diversity
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Controls on terrestrial ecosystem processes: an historical perspective -- 1.2 Species and biotic interactions as ecosystem drivers -- 1.3 Aboveground-belowground interactions as drivers of ecosystem processes -- 1.4 Aboveground-belowground interactions and global change -- 1.5 Emerging issues and trends -- 2 Biotic interactions in soil as drivers of ecosystem properties -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Influence of decomposers on aboveground communities and ecosystem processes -- 2.2.1 Free-living soil microbes, nutrient availability, and plant growth -- 2.2.2 Trophic interactions in soil, nutrient availability, and plant growth -- 2.2.3 Functional consequences of trophic cascades in the soil food web -- 2.2.4 Bacterial-based and fungal-based energy channels and nutrient cycling -- 2.3 Influence of root-associated organisms on plant communities and ecosystem processes -- 2.3.1 Microbial symbionts and plant community dynamics -- 2.3.2 Belowground pathogens, herbivores, and plant community dynamics -- 2.4 Soil ecosystem engineers and plant community dynamics -- 2.5 Soil biotic interactions, carbon dynamics, and global change -- 2.5.1 Soil biotic interactions and ecosystem carbon exchange -- 2.5.2 Contribution of soil biotic interactions to climate change via carbon-cycle feedbacks -- 2.5.3 Multiple global change drivers and soil biotic interactions -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 Plant community influences on the soil community and plant-soil feedbacks -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 How plants affect the belowground subsystem -- 3.2.1 Differential effects of different plant species -- 3.2.2 Effects of within-species variation -- 3.2.3 Spatial and temporal variability -- 3.2.4 Multiple species effects -- 3.3 Overriding effects of plant traits -- 3.3.1 Contrasting plant species and trait axes; 3.3.2 Trait dominance, trait dissimilarity, and multiple species effects -- 3.3.3 Ecosystem stoichiometery -- 3.4 Plant-soil feedbacks -- 3.5 Succession and disturbance -- 3.5.1 The build-up phase of succession -- 3.5.2 Ecosystem retrogression -- 3.5.3 Succession and plant-soil feedbacks -- 3.6 Indirect belowground effects of global change via vegetation -- 3.6.1 Indirect belowground effects of climate change -- 3.6.2 Indirect belowground effects of nitrogen deposition -- 3.7 Conclusions -- 4 Ecosystem-level significance of aboveground consumers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Herbivore-mediated effects on plant-soil feedbacks and ecosystem processes -- 4.2.1 Positive effects of herbivores on belowground properties and ecosystem functioning -- 4.2.2 Negative effects of herbivores on belowground properties and ecosystem functioning -- 4.2.3 Landscape-scale herbivore effects and multiple stable states -- 4.3 The role of plant traits in regulating herbivore impacts -- 4.4 Aboveground trophic cascades and consequences for belowground properties -- 4.5 Spatial movement of resources by consumer organisms -- 4.5.1 Resource transfers across land -- 4.5.2 Resource transfers from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems -- 4.6 Aboveground consumers, carbon dynamics, and global change -- 4.7 Conclusions -- 5 Aboveground and belowground consequences of species losses and gains -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Species losses through extinction and aboveground-belowground linkages -- 5.2.1 The diversity-function issue from an aboveground-belowground perspective -- 5.2.2 Removal experiments for studying effects of species losses -- 5.2.3 Effects of species losses in real ecosystems -- 5.3 Species gains through invasion and aboveground-belowground linkages -- 5.3.1 Invasions by plants -- 5.3.2 Belowground invaders -- 5.3.3 Invasions by aboveground consumers; 5.4 Consequences of global change through causing species gains and losses -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Underlying themes and ways forward -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Biotic interactions, feedbacks, and ecosystem processes -- 6.2.1 Linkages and feedbacks between the aboveground and belowground subsystems -- 6.2.2 Organism traits as ecological drivers -- 6.3 Drivers of spatial and temporal variability -- 6.3.1 Drivers of variation over time -- 6.3.2 Drivers of variation over space -- 6.3.3 Differences across ecosystems -- 6.3.4 Global-scale contrasts -- 6.4 Global change phenomena -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - Synthesises and evaluates recent advances concerning how species and their interactions influence terrestrial ecosystem processes, such as productivity, decomposition, nutrient cycling, and fluxes
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