Bookeditors Scott Johnson, Hefin Jones.
Summary: This book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest scientific knowledge and contemporary theory relating to global climate change and terrestrial invertebrates. Featuring contributions from top international experts, this book explores how changes to invertebrate populations will affect human decision making processes across a number of crucial issues, including agriculture, disease control, conservation planning, and resource allocation. Topics covered include methodologies and approaches to predict invertebrate responses, outcomes for disease vectors and ecosystem service providers, underlying mechanisms for community level responses to global climate change, evolutionary consequences and likely effects on interactions among organisms, and many more. Timely and thought-provoking, Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates offers illuminating insights into the profound influence the simplest of organisms may have on the very future of our fragile world.
Contents:
Introduction to global climate change and terrestrial invertebrates / Scott N. Johnson and T. Hefin Jones
Using historical measurements for predicting range shifts / Georgina Palmer and Jane K. Hill
Experimental approaches for assessing invertebrate responses to global change factors / Richard L. Lindroth and Kenneth F. Raffa
Transplant experiments : a powerful method to study climate change impacts / Sabine S. Nooten and Nigel R. Andrew
Insect pollinators and climate change / Jessica R.K. Forrest
Climate change effects on biological control in grasslands / Philippa J. Gerrard and Alison J. Popay
Climate change and arthropod ectoparasites and vectors of veterinary importance / Hannah Rose, Lauren Ellse and Richard Wall
Climate change and the biology of insect vectors of human pathogens / Luis Fernando Chaves
Climate and atmospheric change impacts on aphids as vectors of plant diseases / James M.W. Ryalls and Richard Harrington
Global climate change, herbivores and their natural enemies / William T. Hentley and Ruth N. Wade
Climate change in the underworld : impacts for soil-dwelling invertebrates / Ivan Hiltpold, Scott N. Johnson, Rene-Claire Le Bayon and Uffe N. Nielsen
Impacts of atmospheric and precipitation change on aboveground-belowground invertebrate interactions / Scott N. Johnson, James M.W. Ryalls and Joanna T. Staley
Forest invertebrate communities and atmospheric change / Sarah L. Facey and Andrew Gherlenda
Climate change and freshwater invertebrates : their role in reciprocal freshwater-terrestrial resources fluxes / Micael Jonsson and Cristina Canhoto
Emerging issues and future perspectives for global climate change and invertebrates / Robert J. Thomas, James Vafidis and Renata J. Medeiros.