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Biodiversity in Drylands - Toward a Unified Framework (Hardcover, New)
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Biodiversity in Drylands - Toward a Unified Framework (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series
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This is the first international volume in the Long Term Ecological
Research Network series. The book summarizes the state of knowledge
about biodiversity in drylands, and seek to identify questions and
strategies for future research and to lay out guidelines for
management of biodiversity in desert and semidesert regions. The
continuing sensitivity of drylands to desertification, the fact
that they occupy 40% of the world's terrestrial area, and the
increasing human populations in these regions, make the
understanding of their biodiversity and its changes over time of
central importance. Drylands also provide a natural laboratory to
address general questions about biodiversity, ecological
succession, etc., because the relative spareness of the landscape
allows one to isolate all the variables more effectively than can
be done in biologically "richer" terrains. This book brings
together leading workers, primarily from the U.S. and Israel, with
some European scientists, to develop an integrative synthesis of
perspectives on biodiversity in drylands, considering work from
multiple regions and investigations focussing on multiple levels of
ecological analysis. Each chapter was written by a small team of
investigators from different institutions and having experience in
different systems. Each chapter team combines at least two
ecological perspectives, for instance, population and ecosystem, or
species and landscape.
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