edited by Mark F. Watson, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, London, Colin Pendry, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 324 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions
26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
The Systematics Association special volume series ;
Volume Designation
volume 84
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK. We are living in an age where biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with the well-documented problems of habitat destruction being compounded by the largely unknown future effects of Climate Change. High quality, accurate and reliable biodiversity data are needed by biologists, conservationists and environmental modellers to understand and assess the ecosystems in which they work, to produce effective conservation strategies, and to feed computer-generated models which predict what environments and habitats we might face"--