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The stucture and dynamics of geographic ranges /
A synthesis of present understanding of the structure of the geographic ranges of species, which is a core issue in ecology and biogeography with implications for many of the environmental issues presently facing humankind. - ;No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Oxford series in ecology and evolution.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- case of the green-backed heron
- Areography
- This book
- 2. Range edges
- Abiotic and biotic factors
- Population dynamics
- Genetics
- 3. Range size
- Extents of occurrence and areas of occupancy
- Which range?
- Species-range size distributions
- Patterns in range size variation
- 4. Abundance structure
- Intraspecific abundance distributions
- Intraspecific abundance-range size relationships
- Environmental gradients and response curves
- Abundance profiles
- 5. Implications
- Range contractions and extinctions
- Protected areas
- Climate change
- Aliens
- Reintroductions
- Final words.