Biodiversity : An Ecological Perspective
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Book Description
Despite acknowledgment that loss of living diversity is an international biological crisis, the ecological causes and consequences of extinction have not yet been widely addressed. In honor of Edward O. Wilson, winner of the 1993 International Prize for Biology, an international group of distinguished biologists bring ecological, evolutionary, and management perspectives to the issue of biodiversity. The roles of ecosystem processes, community structure and population dynamics are considered in this book. The goal, as Wilson writes in his introduction, is "to assemble concepts that unite the disciplines of systematics and ecology, and in so doing to create a sound scientific basis for the future management of biodiversity."
Book Info
Presents an ecological perspective on biodiversity by examining its two facets, the ecological causes and consequences of biodiversity changes. Covers linkage between science and management issues, again from an ecological perspective. DLC: Biological diversity - Congresses.
Biodiversity: An Ecological Perspective,Takuya Abe,Simon A. Levin,Masahiko Higashi,Springer,0387947027,Biodiversity,Biological Variation,Biological diversity,Biotic communities,Congresses,Ecology,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Applied ecology,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Management of land & natural resources,Pollution & threats to the environment,Science / Ecology
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