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Résumé :
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This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics. Major topis covered include phytoplankton bloom, microbial food web, marine biogeography, global climate change and an overview of fisheries oceanography. Difficult concepts are explained in a straightforward manner making this book accessible to undergraduates, graduates and researchers alike. Features a chapter covering important numerical models which have become indispensable in biological oceanography. Further details of key terms and important topics are highlighted in boxes throughout.Models, formulas, methodologies and techniques are described and explained throughout. Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity amongst taxa. Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues.
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