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Research in Biodiversity - Models and Applications
✍ Scribed by I. Pavlinov
- Publisher
- Intech
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 376
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
00_preface_ Research in Biodiversity – Models and Applications......Page 1
00a_Part 1_ Models in Biodiversity......Page 13
01_Towards Bridging Worldviews in
Biodiversity Conservation:
Exploring the Tsonga Concept of
Ntumbuloko in South Africa......Page 15
02_A Study on Biodiversity Mechanism
by the Creativity Theory of Ecosystem......Page 37
03_Ecological Niches and Diversity Maintenance......Page 55
04_Using Multiple Linear Regression
Models to Identify Factors Underlying
Avian Species Imperilment in
Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe......Page 73
05_Towards a Better Understanding of
Beta Diversity: Deconstructing Composition
Patterns of Saproxylic Beetles Breeding
in Recently Burnt Boreal Forest......Page 87
05a_Part 2_ History of Biodiversity......Page 107
06_Twenty Landmark Papers in
Biodiversity Conservation......Page 109
06a_Part 3_ Evaluating Biodiversity......Page 125
07_Evaluating Biodiversity and Spatial
Simulation of Land-Cover Change in the
Tropical Region of Western Ghats, India......Page 127
07a_Part 4_ Regional Biodiversity......Page 157
08_An Agenda for Austrian Biodiversity
Research at the Long-Term Ecosystem
Research Network (LTER)......Page 159
09_Conservation of Chinese Plant
Diversity: An Overview......Page 175
10_Biodiversity Conservation in
Costa Rica - An Animal and
Plant Biodiversity Atlas......Page 215
11_Multiple Approach for Plant Biodiversity
Conservation in Restoring Forests......Page 235
12_Environmental Assessment and Aquatic
Biodiversity Conservation of Amazonian
Savannas, Marajó Island, Brazil......Page 273
13_Biodiversity Conservation Planning in
Rural Landscapes in Japan: Integration
of Ecological and Visual Perspectives......Page 297
14_Water for Biodiversity Conservation
and Livelihoods: Protecting
Northernmost Tropical Deciduous
Forest Relicts in Mexico......Page 319
14a_Part 5_ Uses of Biodiversity......Page 333
15_Bioprospecting: Creating a
Value for Biodiversity......Page 335
15a_Part 6_Morphological disparity......Page 351
16_Morphological Disparity: An Attempt to
Widen and to Formalize the Concept......Page 353
17_Isolation and Identification of Indigenous
Microorganisms of Cocoa Farms in Côte
d’Ivoire and Assessment of Their
Antagonistic Effects Vis-À-Vis
Phytophthora palmivora, the Causal
Agent of the Black Pod Disease......Page 0
✦ Subjects
Экологические дисциплины;Биоразнообразие: проблемы и охрана;
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