Biodiversity

by Kevin J. Gaston

Book Overview

Since biodiversity began to be used in the late 1980s as a call-to-arms by conservation biologists, it has emerged as a topic of scientific investigation in its own right. By the 1990s, biodiversity has become a key concept in the biological and environmental sciences. Biodiversity: A Biology of Numbers and Difference explores the underlying principles of this new research subject: the measurement of biodiversity, its spatial and temporal patterns,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865428042
• ISBN13: 9780865428041
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.5"