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- Reviews of the Neotropical gradients on earth’s climate, biogeochemical cycling and biodiversity
- Explores the mechanisms of changes and adaptations along the Neotropical gradients
- Discusses the impacts of biotic and abiotic stresses on Neotropical ecology
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The importance of the Neotropics to the world's climate, biogeochemical cycling and biodiversity cannot be questioned. This book suggests that gradients are key to understanding both these issues and Neotropical ecosystem structure, function and dynamics in general. Those gradients are either spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal, where many temporal and spatio-temporal gradients are initiated by disturbances (e.g., tree-fall, landslide, cultivation). And in particular for the Neotropics, three large spatial gradients - latitude, longitude, altitude (elevation) - are of critical importance. The editor has over 30 years of experience investigating Neotropical gradients in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Peru and Ecuador, and has published 5 previous books on different aspects of the Neotropics. Once again he has assembled top-shelf Neotropical scientists and researchers, here to focus on gradients: their nature, interactions and how they structure ecosystems.
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Book Title: Neotropical Gradients and Their Analysis
Editors: Randall W. Myster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22848-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22847-6Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22850-6Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22848-3Published: 31 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 468
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 84 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Biodiversity, Community & Population Ecology, Biodiversity, Community & Population Ecology