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Species Richness - Patterns in the Diversity of Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Species Richness - Patterns in the Diversity of Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Environmental Sciences
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This is a readable, informative and up-to-date account of the
patterns and controls on biodiversity. The author describes major
trends in species richness, along with uncertainties in current
knowledge. The various possible explanations for past and present
species patterns are discussed and explained in an even-handed and
accessible way. The implications of global climate change and
habitat loss are considered, along with current strategies for
preserving what we have. This book examines the state of current
understanding of species richness patterns and their explanations.
As well as the present day world, it deals with diversification and
extinction, in the conservation of species richness, and the
difficulties of assessing how many species remain to be discovered.
The scientifically compelling subject of vegetation-climate
interaction is considered in depth. Written in an accessible style,
the author offers an up-to-date, rigorous and yet eminently
comprehensible overview of the ecology and biogeography of species
richness. He departs from the often heavy approach of earlier
texts, without sacrificing rigor and depth of information and
analysis. Prefacing with the aims of the book, Chapter 1 opens with
an explanation of latitudinal gradients, including a description of
major features of the striking gradients in species richness,
exceptions to the rule, explanations, major theories and field and
experimental tests. The following chapter plumbs the depth of time,
including the nature of the fossil record, broad timescale
diversity patterns, ecosystem changes during mass extinctions and
glaciations and their influence on species richness. Chapters 3 and
4 consider hotspots and local scale patterns in species richness
while Chapter 5 looks at the limitations and uncertainties on
current estimates of richness, the last frontiers of species
diversity and the process of identifying new life forms. The last
three chapters cover humans and extinctions in history and
prehistory, current habitat and global change, including the
greenhouse effect, and the race to preserve what we still have,
including parks, gene banks and laws.
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