Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates
1. Edition February 2017
416 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems--and so strongly influence human wellbeing--that biologist E.O. Wilson was prompted to describe them as "little things that run the world." As they are such powerful shapers of the world around us, their response to global climate change is also pivotal in meeting myriad challenges looming on the horizon--everything from food security and biodiversity to human disease control.
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.
List of Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates
Scott N. Johnson and T. Hefin Jones
Part 1: Methods for studying invertebrates and climate change
2. Using historical measurements for predicting range shifts
Georgina Palmer and Jane K. Hill
3. Experimental approaches for assessing invertebrate responses to global change factors
Richard L. Lindroth and Kenneth F. Raffa
4. Transplant Experiments - a powerful method to study climate change impacts
Sabine S. Nooten and Nigel R. Andrew
Part 2: Friends and foes: ecosystem service providers and vectors of disease
5. Insect pollinators and climate change
Jessica R.K. Forrest
6. Climate change effects on biological control in grasslands
Philippa J. Gerrard and Alison J. Popay
7. Climate change and arthropod ectoparasites and vectors of veterinary importance
Hannah Rose, Lauren Ellse and Richard Wall
8. Climate change and the biology of insect vectors of human pathogens
Luis Fernando Chaves
9. Climate and atmospheric change impacts on aphids as vectors of plant diseases
James M.W. Ryalls and Richard Harrington
Part 3: Multi-trophic interactions and invertebrate communities
10. Global climate change, herbivores and their natural enemies
William T. Hentley and Ruth N. Wade
11. Climate change in the underworld: impacts for soil-dwelling invertebrates
Ivan Hiltpold, Scott N. Johnson, Renée-Claire Le Bayon and Uffe N. Nielsen
12. Impacts of atmospheric and precipitation change on aboveground-belowground invertebrate Interactions
13. Forest invertebrate communities and atmospheric change
Sarah L. Facey and Andrew Gherlenda
14. Climate change and freshwater invertebrates: their role in reciprocal freshwater-terrestrial resources fluxes
Micael Jonsson and Cristina Canhoto
15. Climatic impacts on invertebrates as food for vertebrates
Robert J. Thomas, James Vafidis and Renata J. Medeiros
T. Hefin Jones is Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, and an Editor of the journals Global Change Biology and Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
