Mountain Biodiversity
Subtitle: A Global Assessment
Contributors: Christian Korner (Editor); Eva Spehn (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: July 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781842140918
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Management of land & natural resources; Mountains; Nature/Ecology; Land Conservation; Nature; Science; Mountain ecology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Ecology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Nature / Ecology; Biological diversity; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Biodiversity
First sentence: The high elevation biota of the world have been the subject of many synthetic approaches, including assessments of the variability and diversity of ecosystem properties and processes, ecophysiological traits and organismic functioning in general (e.g. Franz, 1979; Vuilleumier and Monasterio, 1986; Billings, 1988; Rundel et al., 1994; Archibold, 1995; Wielgolaski, 1997; Korner, 1999).