Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 July 2013
- ISBN 9780199688166
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 246x190x21 mm
- Weight 914 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability.
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This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic interactions at microscales to communities functioning at regional and global scales. The book leads the user towards an understanding of how the sustainability of soils, biodiversity, and ecosystem services can be maintained and how humans, other animals, and ecosystems are dependent on living soils and ecosystem services.
This is a valuable reference book for academic libraries and professional ecologists worldwide as a statement of progress in the broad field of soil ecology. It will also be of interest to both upper level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in soil ecology, as well as academic researchers and professionals in the field requiring an authoritative, balanced, and up-to-date overview of this fast expanding topic.
Overall, the editor, section editors, and authors have achieved what they intended to do. They have produced a contemporary account of cutting edge science about soils and sustainability
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section 1 - The Living Soil and Ecosystem Services
Introduction
Soil as a habitat
Soil biodiversity and functions
Ecosystem services provided by the soil biota
Synthesis
Section 2 - From Genes to Ecosystem Services
Introduction
From single genes to microbial networks
From genes to ecosystems: plant genetics as a link between above- and belowground processes
Delivery of soil ecosystem services: from Gaia to genes
Synthesis
Section 3 - Community Structure and Biotic Assemblages
Introduction
Succession, resource processing, and diversity in detrital food webs
Patterns of biodiversity at fine and small spatial scales
Linking soil biodiversity and human health: do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute to food nutrition
Ecosystem influences of fungus-growing termites in the dry paleotropics
The biogeography of microbial communities and ecosystem processes: implications for soil and ecosystem models
Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers
Synthesis
Section 4 - Global Changes
Introduction
Climate change effects on soils and ecosystem services
The impact of nitrogen enrichment on ecosystems and their services
Urbanization, soils, and ecosystem services
Management of grassland systems, and soil and ecosystem services
Synthesis
Section 5 - Sustainable Soils
Introduction
Soil productivity and erosion
Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota, and ecosystem services
Soil health: the concept, its role, and strategies for monitoring
Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services
Soil ecosystem resilience and recovery
Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services
Synthesis
Index
