TY - BOOK AU - Wardle,David A. TI - Communities and ecosystems: linking the aboveground and belowground components T2 - Monographs in population biology SN - 9781400847297 AV - QH541 .C666 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Soil ecology KW - Food chains (Ecology) KW - Soil KW - Food Chain KW - EcologĂ­a del suelo KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=529483&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -