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Biomes and ecosystems / editor, Robert Warren Howarth ; associate editor, Jacqueline E. Mohan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotic communities.
- Ecology.
- Ecosystem health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 volumes (xxxii, 1436 pages)) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth through the lens of the diversity of biomes and ecosystems. The overview essays fall into a set of broad divisions: marine and oceanic biomes, inland aquatic biomes, deserts, forests, and grasslands, tundra, and human-dominated systems, and the place-based articles provide greater detail on particular ecosystems, such as the Great Barrier Reef.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. Overviews coastal seas : urban and suburban ecosystems
- Volume 2. Articles : acacia-commiphora bushlands and thickets : Guyanan savanna
- Volume 3. Articles : Hauraki Plains wetlands : Pyramid Lake
- Volume 4. Articles
- Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows : Zapata Swamp.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299485877
- 1299485871
- 9781429838184
- 1429838183
- OCLC:
- 845515874
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