Diana H. Wall: Introduction
Section 1 - The Living Soil and Ecosystem Services
1.0: Karl Ritz and Wim van der Putten: Introduction
1.1: Patrick Lavelle: Soil as a habitat
1.2: Susanne Wurst, Gerlinde De Deyn, and Kate Orwin: Soil
biodiversity and functions
1.3: Lijbert Brussaard: Ecosystem services provided by the soil
biota
1.4: Karl Ritz and Wim van der Putten: Synthesis
Section 2 - From Genes to Ecosystem Services
2.0: Wim van der Putten and Karl Ritz: Introduction
2.1: Evelyn Hackl, Michael Schloter, Ute Szukics, Levente Bodrossy,
and Angela Sessitsch: From single genes to microbial networks
2.2: Jennifer Schweitzer, Michael Madritch, Emmi Felker-Quinn, and
Joseph Bailey: From genes to ecosystems: plant genetics as a link
between above- and belowground processes
2.3: Katarina Hedlund and Jim Harris: Delivery of soil ecosystem
services: from Gaia to genes
2.4: Wim van der Putten and Karl Ritz: Synthesis
Section 3 - Community Structure and Biotic Assemblages
3.0: Don Strong and Valerie Behan-Pelletier: Introduction
3.1: Justin Bastow: Succession, resource processing, and diversity
in detrital food webs
3.2: Matty Berg: Patterns of biodiversity at fine and small spatial
scales
3.3: Pedro Antunes, Philipp Franken, Dietmar Schwarz, Matthias
Rillig, Marco Cosme, Martha Scott, and Miranda Hart: Linking soil
biodiversity and human health: do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
contribute to food nutrition
3.4: Gregor W. Schuurman: Ecosystem influences of fungus-growing
termites in the dry paleotropics
3.5: Mark Bradford and Noah Fierer: The biogeography of microbial
communities and ecosystem processes: implications for soil and
ecosystem models
3.6: Lijbert Brussaard, Duur K. Aanen, Maria J.I. Briones, Thibaud
Decaëns, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Tom M. Fayle, Samuel W. James, and
Tânia Nobre: Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of
soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers
3.7: Don Strong and Valerie Behan-Pelletier: Synthesis
Section 4 - Global Changes
4.0: Richard Bardgett and T. Hefin Jones: Introduction
4.1: Nick J. Ostle and Susan E. Ward: Climate change effects on
soils and ecosystem services
4.2: Peter Manning: The impact of nitrogen enrichment on ecosystems
and their services
4.3: Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman: Urbanization, soils, and
ecosystem services
4.4: Phil Murray, Felicity Crotty, and Nick van Eekeren: Management
of grassland systems, and soil and ecosystem services
4.5: Richard Bardgett and T. Hefin Jones: Synthesis
Section 5 - Sustainable Soils
5.0: Johan Six and Jeffrey E. Herrick: Introduction
5.1: Kristof Van Oost and Martha M. Bakker: Soil productivity and
erosion
5.2: Edmundo Barrios, Gudeta Sileshi, Keith Shepherd, and Fergus
Sinclair: Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota,
and ecosystem services
5.3: Douglas L. Karlen: Soil health: the concept, its role, and
strategies for monitoring
5.4: Michel A. Cavigelli, Jude E. Maul, and Katalin Szlavecz:
Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services
5.5: Stuart Grandy, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, and Sharon A. Billings:
Soil ecosystem resilience and recovery
5.6: Sara G. Baer, Liam Heneghan, and Valerie T. Eviner: Applying
soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services
5.7: Jeffrey E. Herrick and Johan Six: Synthesis
Index
The Editor-in-Chief, Diana H. Wall, is University Distinguished
Professor and Director of the School of Global Environmental
Sustainability at Colorado State University. Diana is actively
engaged in research exploring how nematode and other invertebrate
diversity contributes to healthy, productive soils and thus to
society, and the consequences of human activities on soil globally.
Her 20+ years research in the Antarctic Dry Valleys follows the
response of soil
organisms and ecosystem processes to environmental change, and in
Africa she examines biodiversity in fertile and degraded soils. She
served as President of the Ecological Society of America, the
American
Institute of Biological Sciences, the Intersociety Consortium for
Plant Protection, the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers,
and the Society of Nematologists. Diana received her BA and Ph.D.
from the University of Kentucky, Lexington and is a Professor of
Biology and a Senior Scientist at the Natural Research Ecology
Laboratory. The Section Editors, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie
Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, T. Hefin Jones, Karl Ritz,
Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, and Wim H. van der
Putten, are all leading researchers in this field.
Overall, the editor, section editors, and authors have achieved
what they intended to do. They have produced a contemporary account
of cutting edge science about soils and sustainability
*Robert H. Marrs, Biological Conservation*
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