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Takuya Abe (Editor), Simon A. Levin (Editor), Masahiko Higashi (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 26, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0387947027 | ISBN-13: 978-0387947020 | Edition: 1

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."

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } 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."

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Hardcover: 324 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 26, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387947027
ISBN-13: 978-0387947020
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
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The number of species found per unit area of land (species density) has a geographic pattern including a latitudinal gradient of decreasing density from the tropics to the polar regions (Stevens 1989). Read the first page

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predator attractants, host species preference, mite attractants, statistically oriented models, niche apportionment models, primary forest fragments, uninfested part, autogenic engineers, biomass size spectrum, niche fragmentation, original termites, total niche space, true worker caste, amphitropical distribution, soil feeders, foliar color, nasute soldiers, uninfested plant, species turnover rates, lima bean plants, conspecific plants, higher termites, idiosyncratic hypothesis, infested leaf, stream geomorphology

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New York, Freshwater Biology, Academic Press, Blackwell Scientific, American Naturalist, Nauka Press, Journal of Ecology, United States, Cambridge University Press, San Diego, Entomologia Experimentalis, Journal of Animal Ecology, Lake Constance, University of Chicago Press, Annual Review of Entomology, Kuril Islands, Biological Sciences, Ecological Entomology, Journal of Plankton Research, Kyoto University, New Guinea, North America, North East, Bukit Timah, International Symposium

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Aquatic Ecology (British Ecological Society Special Symposium Volume) by PS Giller on 4 pages
The Theory of Island Biogeography (Princeton Landmarks in Biology) by Robert H. MacArthur on 4 pages
Studyguide for The Diversity of Life by Wilson, ISBN 9780393319408 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on 4 pages
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson on 4 pages

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Biodiversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework (Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series) by Moshe Shachak on page 11, and Back Matter
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Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs by Takayuki Ohgushi on page 243
Insect Populations - in Theory and in Practice by Jack P. Dempster in Back Matter
Complexity in Landscape Ecology (Landscape Series) by David G. Green in Back Matter

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