Invertebrates as webmasters in ecosystems /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Invertebrates > Ecology.; Pests, Pathogens and Biogenic Diseases of Plants, (Discontinued March 2000); Soil Biology.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Animal Ecology.; Arthropods.; Insects.; Invertebrates.; Nematoda.; Plants.; Agricultural entomology.; Biodiversity.; Community ecology.; Cycling.; Ecology.; Ecosystems.; Food webs.; Forest trees.; Nematology.; Plant nematology.; Soil.; Soil fauna.; Soil invertebrates.; Trees.; Woody plants.; Electronic books.
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The current understanding of invertebrates in terrestrial and terrestrially dominated (i.e. lower-order stream) ecosystems is reviewed and assessed. The book emphasizes the centrality of the activity of invertebrates (including arthropods, insects and nematodes), which influence ecosystem function f...

Table of Contents:

• Food Web Functioning and Ecosystem Processes : Problems and Perceptions of Scaling / J.M. Anderson
• Keystone Arthropods as Webmasters in Desert Ecosystems / W.G. Whitford
• Responses of Grassland Soil Invertebrates to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances / J.M. Blair, T.C. Todd and M.A. Callaham, Jr
• Effects of Invertebrates in Lotic Ecosystem Processes / J.B. Wallace and J.J. Hutchens, Jr
• Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Development / T.D. Schowalter
• Herbivores, Biochemical Messengers and Plants : Aspects of Intertrophic Transduction / M.I. Dyer
• Soil Invertebrate Controls and Microbial Interactions in Nutrient and Organic Matter Dynamics in Natural and Agroecosystems / C.A. Edwards
• Invertebrates in Detrital Food Webs along Gradients of Productivity / J.C. Moore and P.C. de Ruiter
• Biodiversity of Oribatid Mites (Acari : Oribatida) in Tree Canopies and Litter / V. Behan-Pelletier and D.E. Walter
• Diversity in the Decomposing Landscape / R.A. Hansen
• The Pervasive Ecological Effects of Invasive Species : Exotic and Native Fire Ants / C.R. Carroll and C.A. Hoffman
• Soil Invertebrate Species Diversity in Natural and Disturbed Environments / J. Rusek
• Invertebrates and Nutrient Cycling in Coniferous Forest Ecosystems : Spatial Heterogeneity and Conditionality / T.M. Bolger, L.J. Heneghan and P. Neville
• Impacts of Insects on Human-dominated and Natural Forest Landscapes / R.N. Coulson and D.F. Wunneburger
• Soil Fauna and Controls of Carbon Dynamics : Comparisons of Rangelands and Forests across Latitudinal Gradients / T.R. Seastedt
• Soil Processes and Global Change : Will Invertebrates Make a Difference? / P.M. Groffman and C.G. Jones.