Biodiversity

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-65

  Zimmerer, Karl S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity variety and variability among organisms; Biogeography root of productive growth of biodiversity science; Environmentalism second perspective on biodiversity; Global scale of biodiversity, science featured in many environmental and conservation organisations; Keystone species, California sea otter preying on sea urchins; New model linking genomics and taxonomy Solanaceae; Species most common taxonomic unit of biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049287789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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