Soil ecology and ecosystem services

"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."--Page 4 of cover

Soil as a habitat / Patrick Lavelle -- Soil biodiversity and functions / Susanne Wurst, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, and Kate Orwin -- Ecosystem services provided by the soil biota / Lijbert Brussaard -- From single genes to microbial networks / Evelyn Hackl [and others] -- From genes to ecosystems : plant genetics as a link between above- and belowground processes / Jennifer A. Schweitzer [and others] -- Delivery of soil ecosystem services : from Gaia to genes / Katarina Hedlund and Jim Harris -- Succession, resource processing, and diversity in detrital food webs / Justin Bastow -- Patterns of biodiversity at fine and small spatial scales / Matty P. Berg -- Linking soil biodiversity and human health : do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute to food nutrition? / Pedro M. Antunes [and others] -- Ecosystem influences of fungus-growing termites in the dry paleotropics / Gregor W. Schuurman -- The biogeography of microbial communities and ecosystem processes : implications for soil and ecosystem models / Mark A. Bradford and Noah Fierer -- Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers : global to local patterns, implications for ecosystem funct…