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This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic interactions at microscales to communities functioning at regional and global scales. The book leads the user towards an understanding of how the sustainability of soils, biodiversity, and ecosystem services can be maintained and how humans, other animals, and ecosystems are dependent on living soils and ecosystem services.

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This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic interactions at microscales to communities functioning at regional and global scales. The book leads the user towards an understanding of how the sustainability of soils, biodiversity, and ecosystem services can be maintained and how humans, other animals, and ecosystems are dependent on living soils and ecosystem services.

Features

  • Novel, research level book linking soil ecology with the contemporary paradigm of ecosystems services
  • Emphasizes the integrative biodiversity of soils, adopting an ecosystem approach
  • Consolidates the discipline within an ecosystem services framework, providing a series of models for further research

Introduction
Section 1 - The Living Soil and Ecosystem Services
1.0Introduction
1.1Soil as a habitat
1.2Soil biodiversity and functions
1.3Ecosystem services provided by the soil biota
1.4Synthesis
Section 2 - From Genes to Ecosystem Services
2.0Introduction
2.1From single genes to microbial networks
2.2From genes to ecosystems: plant genetics as a link between above- and belowground processes
2.3Delivery of soil ecosystem services: from Gaia to genes
2.4Synthesis
Section 3 - Community Structure and Biotic Assemblages
3.0Introduction
3.1Succession, resource processing, and diversity in detrital food webs
3.2Patterns of biodiversity at fine and small spatial scales
3.3Linking soil biodiversity and human health: do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute to food nutrition
3.4Ecosystem influences of fungus-growing termites in the dry paleotropics
3.5The biogeography of microbial communities and ecosystem processes: implications for soil and ecosystem models
3.6Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers
3.7Synthesis
Section 4 - Global Changes
4.0Introduction
4.1Climate change effects on soils and ecosystem services
4.2The impact of nitrogen enrichment on ecosystems and their services
4.3Urbanization, soils, and ecosystem services
4.4Management of grassland systems, and soil and ecosystem services
4.5Synthesis
Section 5 - Sustainable Soils
5.0Introduction
5.1Soil productivity and erosion
5.2Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota, and ecosystem services
5.3Soil health: the concept, its role, and strategies for monitoring
5.4Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services
5.5Soil ecosystem resilience and recovery
5.6Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services
5.7Synthesis
Index
A valuable reference book for academic libraries and professional ecologists worldwide as a statement of progress in the broad field of soil ecology. It will also be of interest to both upper level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in soil ecology, as well as academic researchers and professionals in the field requiring an authoritative, balanced, and up-to-date overview of this fast expanding topic.
  • Soil Ecology & Ecosystem Services (H)



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