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Food chains (Ecology) --- Marine ecology --- Biotic communities.

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Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as well as our climate and atmosphere. Indeed, all terrestrial ecosystems consist of interdependent aboveground and belowground compartments. Despite this, aboveground and belowground ecology have been conducted largely in isolation. This book represents the first major synthesis to focus explicitly on the connections between aboveground and belowground subsystems--and their importance for community structure and ecosystem functioning. David Wardle integrates a vast body of literature from numerous fields--including population ecology, ecosystem ecology, ecophysiology, ecological theory, soil science, and global-change biology--to explain the key conceptual issues relating to how aboveground and belowground communities affect one another and the processes that each component carries out. He then applies these concepts to a host of critical questions, including the regulation and function of biodiversity as well as the consequences of human-induced global change in the form of biological invasions, extinctions, atmospheric carbon-dioxide enrichment, nitrogen deposition, land-use change, and global warming. Through ambitious theoretical synthesis and a tremendous range of examples, Wardle shows that the key biotic drivers of community and ecosystem properties involve linkages between aboveground and belowground food webs, biotic interaction, the spatial and temporal dynamics of component organisms, and, ultimately, the ecophysiological traits of those organisms that emerge as ecological drivers. His conclusions will propel theoretical and empirical work throughout ecology.

General ecology and biosociology --- Food chains (Ecology) --- Soil ecology. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Ecology --- Ecology (General) --- Food chains (Ecology). --- Ecology (General). --- Food webs (Ecology) --- Edaphology --- Animals --- Biological productivity --- Ecology --- Niche (Ecology) --- Nutrient cycles --- Soils --- Roots (Botany) --- Food --- Environmental aspects --- Trophic ecology

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"Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction to the study of the subject. Reviewing various hypotheses in the light of theoretical and empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes, such as population dynamics and energy flow. Pimm provides a variety of mathematical tools for unravelling these patterns and processes, and demonstrates their application through concrete examples. For this edition, Pimm has written a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and their continuing importance to conservation biology."--Jacket.

General ecology and biosociology --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Food chains (Ecology) --- Biotic communities --- 664.8 --- 664.8 Preservation of organic edible substances (in general). Preservation of plant, vegetable products --- Preservation of organic edible substances (in general). Preservation of plant, vegetable products --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Food webs (Ecology) --- Trophic ecology --- Animals --- Nutrient cycles --- Food