Overview
- Offers a very timely overview of current approaches to aboveground-belowground ecology
- Encourages ecologists to consider these interactions in their own studies
- Promotes application in crop protection, not only in agri- and horticulture, but also in grassland management
- Stimulates critical thinking on biodiversity conservation, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and sustainable food and feed production
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 234)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Plant-herbivore interactions
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Multi-species interactions
- Multi-trophic interactions
- Ecosystem functioning
- Trait change
- Indirect Interactiions
- Plant-mediated interactions
- Above-belowground interactions
- Aboveground-belowground linkages
- Soil invertebrates
- Rhizobacteria
- Soil biota
About this book
Researchers now recognize that above- and belowground communities are indirectly linked to one another, often by plant-mediated mechanisms. To date, however, there has been no single multi-authored edited volume on the subject. This book remedies that gap, and offers state-of-the art insights into basic and applied research on aboveground-belowground interactions and their functional consequences. Drawing on a diverse pool of global expertise, the authors present diverse approaches that span a range of scales and levels of complexity.
The respective chapters provide in-depth information on the current state of research, and outline future prospects in the field of aboveground-belowground community ecology. In particular, the book’s goal is to expand readers’ knowledge of the evolutionary, community and ecosystem consequences of aboveground-belowground interactions, making it essential reading for all biologists, graduate students and advanced undergraduates working in thisrapidly expanding field. It touches on multiple research fields including ecology, botany, zoology, entomology, microbiology and the related applied areas of biodiversity management and conservation.
Reviews
“Aboveground-Belowground Community Ecology is a useful and important book. … it would be a highly valuable text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students across fields of ecology, biodiversity, soil science, microbial ecology, evolution, agronomy and entomology. It is informative and incites new approaches and ways of thinking about community ecology; therefore, I am certain this is a text I will perpetually be reaching for.” (Adam Frew, Austral Ecology, July 09, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Takayuki Ohgushi
Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Shiga, Japan, ohgushi@ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Susanne Wurst
Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, e-mail: s.wurst@fu-berlin.de
Scott N. Johnson
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW, Australia, e-mail: Scott.Johnson@westernsydney.edu.au
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aboveground–Belowground Community Ecology
Editors: Takayuki Ohgushi, Susanne Wurst, Scott N. Johnson
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91614-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91613-2Published: 11 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06266-8Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91614-9Published: 01 October 2018
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community & Population Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Soil Science & Conservation, Ecosystems