Biodiversity in Drylands
Subtitle: Toward a Unified Framework (Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)
Contributors: Moshe Shachak (Editor); James R. Gosz (Editor); Stewart T. A. Pickett (Editor); Avi Perevolotsky (Editor)
Series: Long-Term Ecological Research Network
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 11, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780195139853
First sentence: Biodiversity is regarded as a scientific concept, a measurable entity, as well as a social-political construct (Gaston 1996, Wilson 1993).