Biodiversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework

Published on: 2004-12-09
Page Count: 368 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Science
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
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EPUB Available: Yes
ISBN-13: 9780190286187
ISBN-10: 0190286180
... Soil Moisture Gradient We adopt the individualistic approach to describe the distribution and abundance of species along a soil moisture gradient (Whittaker 1967, Keddy 1991). Adopting Whittaker's view implies that the abundance of a ...

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