书目名称 | The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems | 编辑 | William J. Mattson | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Proceedings in Life Sciences | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The role of arthropods in forest ecosystems is poorly understood. Yet such knowledge may be critical in order to explain fully the fundamental forces that shape the structure and regulate the functioning of such ecosys tems. There are numerous hypotheses about the roles of various arthropods, but few, if any, of these hypotheses have been rigorously tested. Some, however, have been repeated so often and so widely that they are now accept ed by many as unequivocal fact. Nothing could be further from the truth. Forest arthropods which derive most of their sustenance from plants are usually specially adapted for feeding in one of three subsystems-the above-ground plant system, the soil-litter system, or the aquatic stream system. Plant-feeding arthropods in the soil-litter and stream systems are primarily saprophous although many consume significant amounts of microorganisms. Research on the role of arthropods in each of these three subsystems has historically been provincial. Until very recently there has been little effort to collate, assimilate, and syn thesize the plethora of findings in even one of these systems-rnuch less all three. This Symposium (at the 15th International C | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1977 | 关键词 | Arthropods; ecosystem; entomology; forest; fundamental interaction; fungi; insects; microorganism; plant; pla | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88448-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-88450-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-88448-1Series ISSN 0172-6625 | issn_series | 0172-6625 | copyright | Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc. 1977 |
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