## THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING We have an intuitive and experiential imperative for conservation and by now an accumulated experience in how to restore degraded systems; is there a great deal more that ecology can contribute to conservation? I will start by
Biodiversity of floodplain river ecosystems: ecotones and connectivity1
β Scribed by Ward, J.V. ;Tockner, K. ;Schiemer, F.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0886-9375
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