Invertebrates as webmasters in ecosystems /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Coleman, David C., 1938-, Hendrix, Paul F.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., �2000.
• Θέματα: Invertebrates > Ecology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Invertebrates.; Electronic books.

 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 far out of proportion to their physical mass in a wide range of situations, particularly at the interface between land and air (litter/soil), water and land (sediments) and in tree canopies and root/soil systems. Consisting of 16 chapters by authors from the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, the book is essential reading for ecologists and invertebrate biologists. 

 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 --   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.