Research in Biodiversity - Models and Applications

Edited by Igor Pavlinov

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Abstract: The book covers several topics of biodiversity researches and uses, containing 17 chapters grouped into 5 sections. It begins with an interesting chapter considering the ways in which the very biodiversity could be thought about. Noteworthy is the chapter expounding pretty original "creativity theory of ecosystem". There are several chapters concerning models describing relation between ecological niches and diversity maintenance, the factors underlying avian species imperilment, and diversity turnover rate of a local beetle group. Of special importance is the chapter outlining a theoretical model for morphological disparity in its most widened treatment. Several chapters consider regional aspects of biodiversity in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, among them an approach for monitoring conservation of the regional tropical phytodiversity in India is of special importance. Of interest is also a chapter considering the history of the very idea of biodiversity emergence in ecological researches.

JEL-codes: Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-794-9
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Chapters in this book:

A Study on Biodiversity Mechanism by the Creativity Theory of Ecosystem

Yong Liu, Guolei Li, Haiqun Yu and Ruiheng Lv

An Agenda for Austrian Biodiversity Research at the Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER)

Stefan Schindler, Thomas Dirnbock, Franz Essl, Richard Zink, Stefan Dullinger, Thomas Wrbka and Michael Mirtl

Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica - An Animal and Plant Biodiversity Atlas

Bert Kohlmann

Biodiversity Conservation Planning in Rural Landscapes in Japan: Integration of Ecological and Visual Perspectives

Yoji Natori, Janet Silbernagel and Michael Adams

Bioprospecting: Creating a Value for Biodiversity

Alan Harvey and Nigel Peter Gericke

Conservation of Chinese Plant Diversity: An Overview

Jordi Lopez-Pujol, Huafeng Wang and Zhi-Yong Zhang

Ecological Niches and Diversity Maintenance

Peter Chesson

Environmental Assessment and Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation of Amazonian Savannas, Marajo? Island, Brazil

Luciano Fogaca De Assis Montag, Tiago Freitas, Ana Cristina Mendes De Oliveira and Ronaldo Barthem

Evaluating Biodiversity and Spatial Simulation of Land-Cover Change in the Tropical Region of Western Ghats, India

Giriraj Amarnath, Murthy M.S.R. and Basanta Shrestha

Morphological Disparity: An Attempt to Widen and to Formalize the Concept

Igor Pavlinov

Multiple Approach for Plant Biodiversity Conservation in Restoring Forests

Federico Vessella, Bartolomeo Schirone and Marco Cosimo Simeone

Towards a Better Understanding of Beta Diversity: Deconstructing Composition Patterns of Saproxylic Beetles Breeding in Recently Burnt Boreal Forest

Ermias T. Azeria, Jacques Ibarzabal, Jonathan Boucher and Christian Hebert

Towards Bridging Worldviews in Biodiversity Conservation: Exploring the Tsonga Concept of Ntumbuloko in South Africa

Brandon Anthony, Sylvia Abonyi, Petra Terblanche and Alan Watt

Twenty Landmark Papers in Biodiversity Conservation

Corey James Alexander Bradshaw, Navjot Sodhi, William Laurance and Barry Brook

Using Multiple Linear Regression Models to Identify Factors Underlying Avian Species Imperilment in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

Raymond Eliot Crafton and Brandon Anthony

Water for Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods: Protecting Northernmost Tropical Deciduous Forest Relicts in Mexico

Rolando Diaz-Caravantes and Erick Sanchez-Flores

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