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Informationen zum Autor About the Editors Scott N. Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) at Western Sydney University. T. Hefin Jones is Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, and an Editor of the journals Global Change Biology and Agricultural and Forest Entomology. Klappentext Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems-and so strongly influence human wellbeing-that biologist E.O. Wilson was prompted to describe them as "little things that run the world." As they are such powerful shapers of the world around us, their response to global climate change is also pivotal in meeting myriad challenges looming on the horizon-everything from food security and biodiversity to human disease control. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest scientific knowledge and contemporary theory relating to global climate change and terrestrial invertebrates. Featuring contributions from top international experts, this book explores how changes to invertebrate populations will affect human decision making processes across a number of crucial issues, including agriculture, disease control, conservation planning, and resource allocation. Topics covered include methodologies and approaches to predict invertebrate responses, outcomes for disease vectors and ecosystem service providers, underlying mechanisms for community level responses to global climate change, evolutionary consequences and likely effects on interactions among organisms, and many more. Timely and thought-provoking, Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates offers illuminating insights into the profound influence the simplest of organisms may have on the very future of our fragile world. Zusammenfassung Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems and so strongly influence human wellbeing that biologist E.O. Wilson was prompted to describe them as little things that run the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors xiii Preface xvii 1 Introduction to Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates 1 Scott N. Johnson and T. Hefin Jones 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Predictions for Climate and Atmospheric Change 2 1.3 General Mechanisms for Climate Change Impacts on Invertebrates 2 1.4 Themes of the Book 4 Acknowledgements 7 References 7 Part I Methods for Studying Invertebrates and Climate Change 9 2 Using Historical Data for Studying Range Changes 11 Georgina Palmer and Jane K. Hill Summary 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Review of Historical Data Sets on Species' Distributions 13 2.3 Methods for Using Historical Data to Estimate Species' Range Changes 15 2.4 Challenges and Biases in Historical Data 19 2.5 New Ways of Analysing Data and Future Perspectives 23 Acknowledgements 24 References 24 3 Experimental Approaches for Assessing Invertebrate Responses to Global Change Factors 30 Richard L. Lindroth and Kenneth F. Raffa Summary 30 3.1 Introduction 30 3.2 Experimental Scale: Reductionist, Holistic and Integrated Approaches 32 3.3 Experimental Design: Statistical Concerns 33 3.4 Experimental Endpoints: Match Metrics to Systems 35 3.5 Experimental Systems: Manipulations From Bottle to Field 36 3.6 Team Science: the Human Dimension 40 3.7 Conclusions 41 Acknowledgements 42 References 42 4 Transplant Experiments - a Powerful Method to Study Climate Change Impacts 46 Sabine S. Nooten and Nigel R. Andrew Summary 46 4.1 Global Climate Change 46 4.2 Climate Change Impacts on Speci...
