About this book
Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems – and so strongly influence human wellbeing – that 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 horizon – everything from food security and biodiversity to human disease control.
Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates 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, Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates offers illuminating insights into the profound influence the simplest of organisms may have on the very future of our fragile world.
Contents
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xvii
1 Introduction to Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates 1
Scott N. Johnson and T. Hefin Jones
Part I Methods for Studying Invertebrates and Climate Change 9
2 Using Historical Data for Studying Range Changes 11
Georgina Palmer and Jane K. Hill
3 Experimental Approaches for Assessing Invertebrate Responses to Global Change Factors 30
Richard L. Lindroth and Kenneth F. Raffa
4 Transplant Experiments – a Powerful Method to Study Climate Change Impacts 46
Sabine S. Nooten and Nigel R. Andrew
Part II Friends and Foes: Ecosystem Service Providers and Vectors of Disease 69
5 Insect Pollinators and Climate Change 71
Jessica R. K. Forrest
6 Climate Change Effects on Biological Control in Grasslands 92
Philippa J. Gerard and Alison J. Popay
7 Climate Change and Arthropod Ectoparasites and Vectors of Veterinary Importance 111
Hannah Rose Vineer, Lauren Ellse and Richard Wall
8 Climate Change and the Biology of Insect Vectors of Human Pathogens 126
Luis Fernando Chaves
9 Climate and Atmospheric Change Impacts on Aphids as Vectors of Plant Diseases 148
James M.W. Ryalls and Richard Harrington
Part III Multi-Trophic Interactions and Invertebrate Communities 177
10 Global Change, Herbivores and Their Natural Enemies 179
William T. Hentley and Ruth N. Wade
11 Climate Change in the Underworld: Impacts for Soil-Dwelling Invertebrates 201
Ivan Hiltpold, Scott N. Johnson, Renée-Claire Le Bayon and Uffe N. Nielsen
12 Impacts of Atmospheric and Precipitation Change on Aboveground-Belowground Invertebrate Interactions 229
Scott N. Johnson, James M.W. Ryalls and Joanna T. Staley
13 Forest Invertebrate Communities and Atmospheric Change 252
Sarah L. Facey and Andrew N. Gherlenda
14 Climate Change and Freshwater Invertebrates: Their Role in Reciprocal Freshwater–Terrestrial Resource Fluxes 274
Micael Jonsson and Cristina Canhoto
15 Climatic Impacts on Invertebrates as Food for Vertebrates 295
Robert J. Thomas, James O. Vafidis and Renata J. Medeiros
Part IV Evolution, Intervention and Emerging Perspectives 317
16 Evolutionary Responses of Invertebrates to Global Climate Change: the Role of Life-History Trade-Offs and Multidecadal Climate Shifts 319
Jofre Carnicer, Chris Wheat, Maria Vives, Andreu Ubach, Cristina Domingo, S̈oren Nylin, Constantí Stefanescu, Roger Vila, Christer Wiklund and Josep Peñuelas
17 Conservation of Insects in the Face of Global Climate Change 349
Paula Arribas, Pedro Abellán, Josefa Velasco, Andrés Millán and David Sánchez-Fernández
18 Emerging Issues and Future Perspectives for Global Climate Change and Invertebrates 368
Scott N. Johnson and T. Hefin Jones
Species Index 379
Subject Index 385
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