Biodiversity: The Abundance of Life
- ISBN-10
- 0521577942
- ISBN-13
- 9780521577946
- Series
- Biodiversity
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 130
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-07-24
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Jenny L. Chapman, Michael B. V. Roberts
Description
First published in 1997, this second book in the Advanced Biology Topics series, studies the diversity of organisms on earth.
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