Biology of Soil - A Community and Ecosystem Approach

Zusatztext ... this book has immense potential as a core key teaching resource for instructing ecology students about the importance of soils and aboveground-belowground feedbacks. In addition to recommending this as a teaching text, I strongly recommend The Biology of Soil to any ecologist who does not actively work in soils and wants to learn more about their fascinating ecology. Informationen zum Autor Richard Bardgett is Professor of Ecology in the Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences at the University of Lancaster, UK. Klappentext Soil science has undergone a renaissance in recent years with an increasing awareness of the importance of soil organisms and below-ground biotic interactions as drivers of community and ecosystem properties. This book is unique amongst texts of its type in its explicit consideration of above-ground/below-ground feedback! herbivores! and the functional significance and regulation of soil biodiversity. This is a truly contemporary text! suitable for undergraduate andgraduate students taking courses in soil ecology and ecosystem science! as well as professional researchers in the fields of ecology and environmental biology requiring a modern overview of the topic. Zusammenfassung Considers above-ground/below-ground feedback, herbivores, and the functional significance and regulation of soil biodiversity. This text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in soil ecology and ecosystem science, as well as professional researchers in the fields of ecology and environmental biology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements 1: The soil environment 2: The diversity of life in soil 3: Organism interactions and soil processes 4: Linkages between plant and soil biological communities 5: Above-ground trophic interactions and soil biological communities 6: Soil biological properties and global change 7: Conclusions Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Bardgett, Richard (Institute of Environmental and Bardgett, Richard D. Bardgett, Richard D. (Institute of Environmental a Bardgett
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780198525035
• ISBN: 978-0-19-852503-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Biology of Habitats; Biology of Habitats
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Physical geography & topography, Soil science, sedimentology, Physical geography and topography, Sedimentology and pedology