Biodiversity in drylands : toward a unified framework
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Biodiversity in drylands : toward a unified framework
(Long-term ecological research network series)
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Edited by Moshe Shachak, James R. Gosz, Steward T.A. Pickett, and Avi Perevolotsky
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This is the first international volume in the Long Term Ecological Research Network series. The book summarizes the state of knowledge about biodiversity in drylands, and seek to identify questions and strategies for future research and to lay out guidelines for management of biodiversity in desert and semidesert regions. The continuing sensitivity of drylands to desertification, the fact that they occupy 40% of the world's terrestrial area, and the increasing human
populations in these regions, make the understanding of their biodiversity and its changes over time of central importance. Drylands also provide a natural laboratory to address general questions about biodiversity, ecological succession, etc., because the relative spareness of the landscape allows
one to isolate all the variables more effectively than can be done in biologically "richer" terrains. This book brings together leading workers, primarily from the U.S. and Israel, with some European scientists, to develop an integrative synthesis of perspectives on biodiversity in drylands, considering work from multiple regions and investigations focussing on multiple levels of ecological analysis. Each chapter was written by a small team of investigators from different institutions and
having experience in different systems. Each chapter team combines at least two ecological perspectives, for instance, population and ecosystem, or species and landscape.
Table of Contents
1: Moshe Shachak, James R. Gosz, Avi Perevolotsky, and Steward T.A. Pickett: Introduction: A Framework for Biodiversity Studies
I. Living Components of Biodiversity: Organisms
2: Yoram Ayal, Gary A. Polis, Yael Lubin, and Deborah E. Goldberg: How Can Animal Diversity Be Supported in Low-Productivity Deserts?: The Role of Macrodetritivory and Habitat Physiognomy
3: Salit Kark, Sergei Volis, and Ariel Novoplansky: Biodiversity Among Core-Periphery Clines
4: William A. Mitchell, Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown, Leon Blaustein, and Sasha R.X. Dall: Species Diversity, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Species Interactions
5: Yaron Ziv, Michael L. Rosenzweig, and Robert D. Holt: SHALOM: A Landscape Simulation Model for Understanding Animal Biodiversity
6: William Edward Kunin and Jack J. Lennon: Spacial Scale and Species Diversity: Building Species-Area Curves from Species Incidence
7: Peter M. Groffman, Eli Zaady, and Moshe Shachak: Microbial Contributions to Biodiversity in Deserts
8: Gary A. Polis, Yoram Ayal, Alona Bachi, Sasha R.X. Dall, Deborah E. Goldberg, Robert D. Holt, Salit Kark, Burt P. Kotler, and William A. Mitchell: United Framework I: Interspecific Interactions and Species Diversity in Drylands
II. Ecological Complexes of Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Landscapes
9: Moshe Shachak, Stewart T.A. Pickett, and James R. Gosz: Species Diversity and Ecosystem Processes in Water-Limited Systems
10: Bertrand Boeken, Yarden Oren, Shlomo Brandywine, and Sol Brand: Linking Species Diversity and Landscape Diversity
11: Mark E. Ritchie and Han Olff: The Impact of Animals on Species Diversity in Arid-Land Plant Communities
12: Mark E. Ritchie and Han Olff: Resource Partitioning and Biodiversity in Fractal Environments with Applications to Dryland Communities
13: Moshe Shachak, Robert Waide, and Peter M. Groffman: Unified Framework II: Ecosystem Processes - A Link Between Species and Landscape Diversity
III. Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management
14: David Ward: The Effects of Grazing on Plant Biodiversity in Arid Ecosystems
15: Arian Pregenzer, Robert R. Parmenter, Howard Passell, John R. Vande Castle, Thomas K. Budge, and Gregory Michael Bonito: Sustainability in Arid Grasslands: New Technology Applications for Management
16: Michael L. Rosenzweig: Reconciliation Ecology and the Future of Species Diversity
17: Avi Perevolotsky, Moshe Shachak, and Stewart T.A. Pickett: Management for Biodiversity: Human and Landscape Effects on Dry Environments
18: Anna A. Sher, Bruce M. Kahn, and Christopher R. Dickman: United Framework III: Human Interactions with Biodiversity
19: Moshe Shachak, James R. Gosz, Avi Perevolotsky, and Stewart T.A. Pickett: Toward a United Framework in Biodiversity Studies
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