Antarctic Communities
Subtitle: Species, Structure and Survival
Contributors: Bruno Battaglia (Editor); Jose Valencia (Editor); David Walton (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780521480338
Subjects: Applied ecology; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Reference; Biological diversity; Arctic Ecology; Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Antarctica; Congresses; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Biological diversity--Antarctica--Congresses; Science / Biology; Adaptation (Biology); Biodiversity; Ecology
First sentence: The unique Antarctic marine environment, its evolutionary history, its biotic peculiarities and its (hitherto) comparatively low degree of human impact make a biodiversity approach and a comparison with other areas particularly worth while.