Communities and ecosystems linking the aboveground and belowground components / David A Wardle.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Underlying themes -- References -- Index.

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