Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates

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<p>Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystemsand so strongly influence human wellbeingthat 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 horizoneverything from food security and biodiversity to human disease control.</p><p>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,<i>Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates</i> offers illuminating insights into the profound influence the simplest of organisms may have on the very future of our fragile world.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Scott N. Johnson</b> is Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) at Western Sydney University.</p><p><b>T. Hefin Jones</b> is Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, and an Editor of the journals<i>Global Change Biology</i> and<i>Agricultural and Forest Entomology</i>.</p>

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