Aboveground–Belowground Community Ecology

Takayuki OhgushiCenter for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Shiga, Japan, ohgushi@ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jpSusanne WurstFunctional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, e-mail: s.wurst@fu-berlin.deScott N. JohnsonHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW, Australia, e-mail: Scott.Johnson@westernsydney.edu.au

• Linking Aboveground-Belowground Ecology: A Short Historical Perspective.- Belowground Experimental Approaches for Exploring Aboveground-Belowground Patterns.- Modelling Aboveground-Belowground Interactions.- Intraspecific Plant-Soil Feedbacks Link Ecosystem Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.- Interactions Involving Rhizobacteria and Foliar-Feeding Insects.- Belowground-Aboveground Interactions Between Pathogens and Herbivores.- Soil Macro-Invertebrates- Their Impact on Plants and Associated Aboveground Communities in Temperate Regions.- The Feedback Loop Between Aboveground Herbivores and Soil Microbes via Deposition Processes.- Eco-Evolutionary Factors Driving Plant-Mediated Above-Belowground Invertebrate Interactions Along Elevation Gradients.- Cross-Compartment Herbivory Effects on Antagonists and Mutualists and Their Consequences for Plant Fitness.- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Above- and Belowground Herbivores and Invasive Plants.- Wei Huang, Evan Siemann, and Jianqing Ding.- Soil Biota As Drivers of Plant Community Assembly.- Application and Theory of Plant-Soil Feedbacks on Aboveground Herbivores.-  Current Knowledge and Future Challenges of Aboveground and Belowground Community Ecology.

“The book is a must-read for anyone interested in ecology. Because the rangeland ecology community is well aware of the importance of soils … this book would be good place to start, and in turn the rangeland ecologist has much to add in broadening the context of AG-BG studies.” (Heidi-Jayne Hawkins, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, June 5, 2020)“Aboveground-Belowground Community Ecology is a useful and important book. … it would be a highly valuable text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students across fields of ecology, biodiversity, soil science, microbial ecology, evolution, agronomy and entomology. It is informative and incites new approaches and ways of thinking about community ecology; therefore, I am certain this is a text I will perpetually be reaching for.” (Adam Frew, Austral Ecology, July 09, 2019)