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Biodiversity in drylands : toward a unified framework /
The first volume in the "Long Term Ecological Research Network" series, this book summarizes the state of knowledge about biodiversity in drylands, and seeks to identify questions and strategies for future research and to lay out guidelines for management of biodiversity in desert and semi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Long-Term Ecological Research Network series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; 1 Introduction: A Framework for Biodiversity Studies; I: Living Components of Biodiversity: Organisms; 2 How Can High Animal Diversity Be Supported in Low-Productivity Deserts?: The Role of Macrodetritivory and Habitat Physiognomy; 3 Biodiversity Along Core-Periphery Clines; 4 Species Diversity, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Species Interactions; 5 SHALOM: A Landscape Simulation Model for Understanding Animal Biodiversity; 6 Spatial Scale and Species Diversity: Building Species-Area Curves from Species Incidence; 7 Microbial Contributions to Biodiversity in Deserts.