Biodiversity: An Ecological Perspective

Biodiversity: An Ecological Perspective
ISBN-10
146127334X
ISBN-13
9781461273349
Series
Biodiversity
Category
Science
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2012-09-27
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Simon A. Levin, Takuya Abe, Masahiko Higashi

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."

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