Biodiversity in ecosystems: principles and case studies of different complexity levels /

This volume does not aim at merely adding to the vast and increasing number of individual publications on `biodiversity'. Rather it is our objective to investigate biodiversity on the previously little studied coenosis and landscape levels. Phytosociological and animal-ecological fields are con...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kratochwil, Alfred (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science + Business Media, 1999.
Series:Tasks for vegetation science ; 34.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Editorial by A. Kratochwil
  • 1 Biodiversity survey and principles
  • Biodiversity in ecosystems: some principles
  • The diversity of the fauna of two beech forests: some thoughts about possible mechanisms causing the observed patterns
  • 2 Fauna, flora, and vegetation in ecosystems: some aspects of biodiversity
  • Biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems
  • Spatial arrangements of habitats and biodiversity: an approach to a sigmasociological view
  • Diversity of pasture-woodlands of north-western Germany
  • Plant diversity in successional grasslands: How is it modified by foliar insect herbivory?
  • The importance of biogeography to biodiversity of bird communities of coniferous forests
  • Limits and conservation of the species diversity of small mammal communities
  • Lemurs as indicators for assessing biodiversity in forest ecosystems of Madagascar: Why it does not work
  • 3 Biodiversity and nature preservation
  • Conservation of biodiversity ? scientific standards and practical realization
  • Elements of biodiversity in today?s nature conservation discussion ? from a geobotanical viewpoint
  • Biodiversity ? its levels and relevance for nature conservation in Germany.