Aboveground–Belowground Community Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Linking Aboveground–Belowground Ecology: A Short Historical Perspective

   • Richard D. Bardgett

   Pages 1-17

3. Belowground Experimental Approaches for Exploring Aboveground–Belowground Patterns

   • Scott N. Johnson, Felicity V. Crotty, James M. W. Ryalls, Philip J. Murray

   Pages 19-46

4. Modeling Aboveground–Belowground Interactions

   • Katrin M. Meyer

   Pages 47-68

5. Intraspecific Plant–Soil Feedbacks Link Ecosystem Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

   • Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Michael Van Nuland, Joseph K. Bailey

   Pages 69-84

6. Fungal-Mediated Above–Belowground Interactions: The Community Approach, Stability, Evolution, Mechanisms, and Applications

   • Alison E. Bennett, Peter Orrell, Antonino Malacrino, Maria José Pozo

   Pages 85-116

7. Interactions Involving Rhizobacteria and Foliar-Feeding Insects

   • Kiran R. Gadhave, Alan C. Gange

   Pages 117-133

8. Belowground–Aboveground Interactions Between Pathogens and Herbivores

   • Bastien Castagneyrol, Pilar Fernandez-Conradi, Pil U. Rasmussen, Cécile Robin, Ayco J. M. Tack

   Pages 135-174

9. Soil Macro-Invertebrates: Their Impact on Plants and Associated Aboveground Communities in Temperate Regions

   • Susanne Wurst, Ilja Sonnemann, Johann G. Zaller

   Pages 175-200

10. The Feedback Loop Between Aboveground Herbivores and Soil Microbes via Deposition Processes

    • Cari A. Ritzenthaler, Caitlin E. Maloney, Audrey M. Maran, Eric A. Moore, Amanda Winters, Shannon L. Pelini

    Pages 201-221

11. Eco-evolutionary Factors Driving Plant-Mediated Above–Belowground Invertebrate Interactions Along Elevation Gradients

    • Alan Kergunteuil, Moe Bakhtiari, Sergio Rasmann

    Pages 223-245

12. Cross-Compartment Herbivory Effects on Antagonists and Mutualists and Their Consequences for Plant Fitness

    • Nicholas A. Barber

    Pages 247-269

13. Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Above- and Belowground Herbivores and Invasive Plants

    • Wei Huang, Evan Siemann, Jianqing Ding

    Pages 271-291

14. Soil Biota as Drivers of Plant Community Assembly

    • Paul Kardol, Jonathan R. De Long, Pierre Mariotte

    Pages 293-318

15. Application and Theory of Plant–Soil Feedbacks on Aboveground Herbivores

    • Ian Kaplan, Ana Pineda, Martijn Bezemer

    Pages 319-343

16. Current Knowledge and Future Challenges of Aboveground and Belowground Community Ecology

    • Takayuki Ohgushi, Susanne Wurst, Scott N. Johnson

    Pages 345-361

17. Back Matter

    Pages 363-370

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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.

• 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

“The book is a must-read for anyone interested in ecology. Because the rangeland ecology community is well aware of the importance of soils … this book would be good place to start, and in turn the rangeland ecologist has much to add in broadening the context of AG-BG studies.” (Heidi-Jayne Hawkins, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, June 5, 2020)

“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)

• Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Shiga, Japan

  Takayuki Ohgushi

• Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

  Susanne Wurst

• Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

  Scott N. Johnson

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

 

 

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