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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Science + Business Media,
1999.
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| Series: | Tasks for vegetation science ;
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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.