Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry focuses on biotic responses to warmer soils, including plant and microbial evolution. It covers various field settings, such as temperate forests, tropical forest, subalpine forests, arctic tundra, grasslands and alpine meadows. The included information integrates multiple natural science disciplines, providing a holistic, integrative approach that will help readers understand and forecast future planetary responses to soil warming. Soil scientists, ecologists and geneticists, and molecular, evolutionary and conservation biologists interested in understanding and planning for the future for organisms' and ecosystems' responses to warmer soil conditions will find this book a valuable resource. Includes a strong emphasis on biological components of soil that provides linkages to physics and chemistryBrings together chapters written by global experts with interests in science communication and educationPresents a holistic view of the soil food web using community sequencing INDICE: 1. Climate change, warmer soils, and altered biotic and biogeochemical processes - a view to the future2. A holistic view of the soil food web using community sequencing3. Evolutionary consequences of climate change4. Soil warming impacts on plant reproduction: Results from native populations, communities and ecosystems5. Plant biochemistry impacts ecosystem responses to soil warming and drought6. Microbial responses to experimental soil warming: Community dynamics and physiology7. Mycorrhizal mediation of plant and ecosystem responses to soil warming8. The temperature sensitivity of soil respiration: A global approach9. The role of soil physical properties for determining biogeochemical responses to soil warming10. Soil warming and winter snow packs: Implications for northern forest ecosystem functioning11. Earthworm and other soil faunal responses to warmer soils and impacts for terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling12. Reflections on 27 years of manipulated ecosystem warming in a subalpine meadow13. Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming14. Grassland ecosystem responses to soil warming15. Soil warming effects on low-latitude forests with highly-weathered soils16. Decadal responses of a northern temperate forest to soil warming and the importance of long-term research17. Long-term warming research in high-latitude ecosystems: Responses from polar ecosystems and implications for future climate18. Future research on terrestrial ecosystem responses to warmer soils19. Effects of soil warming on fungal leaf endophytes: impacts on physiology, species richness, and composition

• ISBN: 978-0-12-813493-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 620
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés