Overview
- Illustrates the contribution of belowground biota to the overall stability of an ecosystem, with particular reference to microbial communities
- Enriches understanding of the plethora of functions performed by soil organisms and how these can be utilized to maintain delivery of ecosystem services
- Covers some of the latest thinking and methodological developments in the study of organisms inhabiting soils in tree dominated ecosystems
Part of the book series: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection (SUPP)
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This volume explores current knowledge and methods used to study soil organisms and to attribute their activity to wider ecosystem functions. Biodiversity not only responds to environmental change, but has also been shown to be one of the key drivers of ecosystem function and service delivery. Soil biodiversity in tree-dominated ecosystems is also governed by these principles, the structure of soil biological communities is clearly determined by environmental, as well as spatial, temporal and hierarchical factors. Global environmental change, together with land-use change and ecosystem management by humans, impacts the aboveground structure and composition of tree ecosystems. Due to existing knowledge of the close links between the above- and belowground parts of terrestrial ecosystems, we know that soil biodiversity is also impacted. However, very little is known about the nature of these impacts; effects on the overall level of biodiversity, the magnitude and diversity of functions soil biodiversity generates, but also on the present and future stability of tree ecosystems and soils. Even though much remains to be learned about the relationships between soil biodiversity and tree ecosystem functionality, it is clear that better effort needs to be made to describe and understand key processes which take place in soils and are driven by soil biota.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience
Editors: Martin Lukac, Paola Grenni, Mauro Gamboni
Series Title: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63336-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63335-0Published: 07 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87526-2Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63336-7Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2567-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2567-9821
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 347
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry