Invertebrates Webmasters Ecosystems (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xi + 336 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle age-spotting limited to endpapers. Interior is clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show shelfwear, sunning, small scuff-marks, short creases to corners. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Invertebrates are conspicuous, influential components in all of the ecosystems of the world. Assemblages of invertebrates assume an organizing function and hence may be considered as "webmasters" in these ecosystems. This book reviews and assesses our current understanding of invertebrates in terrestrial and terrestrially-dominated (lower-order stream) ecosystems. It emphasizes the centrality of the activity of invertebrates, which influence ecosystems function far out of proportion to their physical mass in a wide range of situations, particularly at the soil interface between land and air (litter/soil), water and land (sediments) and in tree canopies and root/soil systems. -- Contents: Part I: Webmaster Functions in Ecosystems 1. Food Web Functioning and Ecosystem Processes: Problems and Perceptions of Scaling 2. Keystone Arthropods as Webmasters in Desert Ecosystems 3. Responses of Grassland Soil Invertebrates to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances 4. Effects of Invertebrates in Lotic Ecosystem Processes; Part II: Webmasters in Feedback Interactions and Food Webs 5. Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Development 6. Herbivores, Biochemical Messengers and Plants: Aspects of Intertrophic Transduction 7. Soil Invertebrate Controls and Microbial Interactions in Nutrient and Organic Matter Dynamics in Natural and Agroecosystems 8. Invertebrates in Detrital Food Webs along Gradients of Productivity; Part III: Webmasters and Ecosystem Diversity 9. Biodiversity of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Tree Canopies and Litter 10. Diversity in the Decomposing Landscape 11. Pervasive Ecological Effects of Invasive Species: Exotic and Native Fire Ants 12. Soil Invertebrate Species Diversity in Natural and Disturbed Environments; Part IV: Webmasters in Regional and Global Contexts 13. Invertebrates and Nutrient Cycling in Coniferous Forest Ecosystems: Spatial Heterogeneity and Conditionality 14. Impacts of Insects on Human-dominated and Natural Forest Landscapes 15. Soil Fauna and Controls of Carbon Dynamics: Comparisons of Rangelands and Forests across Latitudinal Gradients 16. Soil Processes and Global Change: Will Invertebrates Make a Difference?; Index.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The purpose of this book is to review and assess our current understanding of invertebrates in terrestrial and terrestrially-dominated (i.e. lower-order stream) ecosystems. It emphasises the centrality of the activity of invertebrates, 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.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The purpose of this book is to review and assess our current understanding of invertebrates in terrestrial and terrestrially-dominated (i.e. lower-order stream) ecosystems. It emphasises the centrality of the activity of invertebrates, 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.…