ENGLISH

Biodiversity: An Ecological Perspective

By Simon A. Levin , Edward O. Wilson (auth.) , Takuya Abe , Masahiko Higashi (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1997
ISBN
978-1-4612-7334-9, 978-1-4612-1906-4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-1906-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26392339 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
294\290
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Ecology; Biodiversity; Conservation Biology/Ecolog

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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