Biodiversity
Subtitle: An Ecological Perspective
Contributors: Takuya Abe (Editor); Simon A. Levin (Editor); Masahiko Higashi (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 26, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780387947020
First sentence: The number of species found per unit area of land (species density) has a geographic pattern including a latitudinal gradient of decreasing density from the tropics to the polar regions (Stevens 1989).