Résumé :
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"Biodiversity" explores the underlying principles of this new subject of reseach : the measurement of biodiversity ; its spatial and temporal patterns ; and the ways in which its study should inform conservation biology. No-one doubts the central importance of biodiversity in ecology, but its scientific basic has required appraisal and clarification. With this book, the study of biodiversity takes an important step forward. An authoritative series of reviews from the leading researchers in the field, setting the research agenda for the next decade ; examines biodiversity from a range of perspectives : genetics, taxonomy, ecology, etc. ; explores the links between biodiversity and global environmental change ; ideal as a textbook for the new upper level courses in biodiversity. Contents : part. 1 : Measuring biodiversity ; part. 2 : Patterns in biodiversity and, part. 3 : Conservation and management.
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