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Auteur K. Gaston |
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Here is a short and simple introduction to biodiversity -. how it arose, where it occurs, why it is important and what should be done to maintain it. Designed primarily with undergraduate students in mind, although also of interest to conservati[...]![]()
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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 centra[...]![]()
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K. Gaston | 2009This themed issue focuses on the wide variety of current research perspectives on the nature and determinants of the limits to geographic ranges. The contributions address important themes, including the roles and influences of dispersal limitat[...]![]()
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Issues of scale have become increasingly important to ecologists. This book addresses the structure of regional (large-scale) ecological assemblages or communities, and the influence this has at a local (small-scale) level. This macroecological [...]![]()
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The study of rare species has long fascinated biologists. Rare and common species may differ in body size, dispersal, reproduction and many other respects. The Biology of rarity reviews documented patterns of such differences, and considers the [...]![]()
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No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these distributions - the structure of the geographic ranges of species. Gasto[...]