edited by Mark F. Watson, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, London, Colin Pendry, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
x, 324 pages :
ساير جزييات
illustrations (some color) ;
ابعاد
26 cm
فروست
عنوان فروست
The Systematics Association special volume series ;
مشخصه جلد
volume 84
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"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"--