Biotic interactions in the tropics: their role in the maintenance of species diversity

Tropical ecosystems house a significant proportion of global biodiversity. To understand how these ecosystems function we need to appreciate not only what plants, animals and microbes they contain, but also how they interact with each other. This volume synthesises the current state of knowledge in...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
Ausgabe:1. publ..
Schriftenreihe:Ecological reviews
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Zusammenfassung:Tropical ecosystems house a significant proportion of global biodiversity. To understand how these ecosystems function we need to appreciate not only what plants, animals and microbes they contain, but also how they interact with each other. This volume synthesises the current state of knowledge in this area, with chapters providing reviews or case studies drawn from research conducted in both Old and New World tropics and including biotic interactions among taxa at all trophic levels. In most chapters plants (typically trees) are the starting point, but, taken together, the chapters consider interactions of plants with other plants, with micro-organisms and with animals, and the inter-relationships of human-induced disturbance with interactions among species. An underlying theme of the volume is the attempt to understand the maintenance of high diversity in tropical regions, which remains one of the most significant unexplained observations in ecological studies.
Beschreibung:XV, 564 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0521609852
0521847079
9780521609852
9780521847070

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