Biodiversity in Fluctuating Dry-Land Environments: Basic and Applied Aspects
Biodiversity, the current buzzword mouthed by everyone from vendors of “rainforest” candies to right-wing politicians or propagandists for petroleum corporations, is difficult to define and even more difficult to link to causal mechanisms (Walker 1992). “
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Landscape Disturbance and Biodiversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems With 86 Figures, 3 in Color, and 57 Tables
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Prof. Dr. Philip W. Rundei Dep artment of Biology University of Californ ia (UCLA) 900 Veteran Avenue Los Angeles CA 90095, USA Pro f. Dr. Gloria Montenegro Pro f. Dr. Fabian M. [aksic Departamento de Ecologia Pontificia Universidad Cat ölica de Chile Casilla 114-D Santiago, Chile
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Preface
Mediterranean-type ecosystems have long provided classic cases for studies of comparative ecological function because of the opportunities that they present for investigations of evolutionary convergence and divergence among the five regions of the world that share this unusual climatic regime. It is not surprising, therefore, that there has been an active history of c
