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Advances in Ecological Research: Roadmaps Part A
- 1st Edition, Volume 68 - October 24, 2023
- Editors: David Bohan, Alex Dumbrell
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 3 7 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 3 7 9 - 8
Functional Microbiomes II, Volume 68 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters writ… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFunctional Microbiomes II, Volume 68 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters include Investigating the core microbiome concept: Daphnia as a case study and Soil Microbiome
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in Advances in Ecological Research series
- Includes the latest information on Managing Conflict in Agricultural, Urban and Tropical Ecosystems
Environmentalists, ecologists at undergraduate through to research level, social scientists and economists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: A roadmap for biomonitoring in the 21st century: Merging methods into metrics via ecological networks
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Advances across biomonitoring
- 3 Recent milestones for molecular monitoring methods
- 4 Direct detection of ecological interactions using molecular methods
- 5 Network inference and construction
- 6 Merging methods for comprehensive monitoring
- 7 Network metrics for biomonitoring
- 8 Challenges, priorities and the road ahead
- References
- Chapter Two: Long-term experiments in natural locally-extreme high CO2 environments: Roadmap for future research
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Case study mofettes
- 3 Roadmaps for new research in ecology and evolution in mofettes
- 4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Three: Too little or not too little – gross nitrogen mineralization responses to elevated CO2
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Results and discussion
- 4 Future research needs
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter Four: New insights on massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pollinating MIMS: Recent developments and future directions
- 3 Emerging pollinating MIMS
- 4 Plant MIMS, are pollinator-friendly schemes friendly
- 5 MIMS in ecological networks
- 6 Incentives to regulate MIMS, co-construction with local actors, the case of beekeeping
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Five: A roadmap for designing semi-natural habitat: Plantings that benefit pollinators and people, not pests
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Designing semi-natural habitat for crop pollinators: Relevance to different agricultural sustainability frameworks and sustainable development goals
- 3 Challenge of implementing the design of SNH for crop pollinators at the regional level
- 4 The importance of designed and undesigned farmland native SNH to different land managing organisations in New Zealand: A survey
- 5 Recognition and uptake of practices: Case study
- 6 Current best practices for developing pollinator-friendly landscapes
- 7 Conclusion and further research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Six: Roadmap for transformative agriculture: From research through policy towards a liveable future in Europe
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State of biodiversity on farmlands
- 3 Steps towards biodiversity-friendly policy environment
- 4 Solution: transformative change
- 5 Obstacles to transformative change: knowledge gaps, imbalances, and other challenges
- 6 Policies in – or should be in – support of transformative change
- 7 Roadmap and leverage points
- 8 Vision by 2050
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Seven: Unravelling the web of dark interactions: Explainable inference of the diversity of microbial interactions
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- No. of pages: 318
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 68
- Published: October 24, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443193781
- eBook ISBN: 9780443193798
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David Bohan
Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial ‘waves’ in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.
Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.
Affiliations and expertise
Agricultural Ecologist, UMR 1347 Agroecologie, Dijon, FranceAD
Alex Dumbrell
Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Essex, UKRead Advances in Ecological Research: Roadmaps Part A on ScienceDirect