Invertebrates as webmasters in ecosystems
By: edited by D.C. Coleman and P.F. Hendrix.
Contributors: Coleman, David C., 1938-; Hendrix, Paul F.
Publisher: CABI Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxon, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Invertebrates -- Ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food web functioning and ecosystem processes : problems and perceptions of scaling -- J.M. Anderson; title: Keystone anthropods as webmasters in desert ecosystems -- W.G. Whitford; title: Responses of grassland soil invertebrates to natural and anthropogenic disturbances -- J.M. Blair, T.C. Todd and M.A. Callaham, Jr.; title: Effects of invertebrates in lotic ecosystem processes -- J.B. Wallace and J.J. Hutchens, Jr.; title: Insects as regulators of ecosystem development -- T.D. Schowalter; title: Herbivores, biochemical messengers and plants : aspects of intertrophic transduction -- M.I. Dyer; title: Soil invertebrate controls and microbial interactions in nutrient and organic matter dynamics in natural and agroecosystems -- C.A. Edwards; title: Invertebrates in detrital food webs along gradients of productivity -- J.C. Moore and P.C. de Ruiter; title: Biodiversity of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in tree canopies and litter -- V. Behan-Pelletier and D.E. Walter; title: Diversity in the decomposing landscape -- R.A. Hansen; title: Pervasive ecological effects of invasive species : exotic and native fire ants -- C.R. Carroll and C.A. Hoffman; title: Soil invertebrate species diversity in natural and disturbed environments -- J. Rusek; title: Invertebrates and nutrient cycling in coniferous forest ecosystems : spatial heterogeneity and conditionality -- T.M. Bolger, L.J. Heneghan and P. Neville; title: Impacts of insects on human-dominated and natural forest landscapes -- R.N. Coulson and D.F. Wunneburger; title: Soil fauna and controls of carbon dynamics : comparisons of rangelands and forests across latitudinal gradients -- T.R. Seastedt; title: Soil processes and global change : will invertebrates make a difference?-- P.M. Groffman and C.G. Jones.