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Product Identifiers

PublisherNOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated

ISBN-101628082984

ISBN-139781628082982

eBay Product ID (ePID)171699094

Product Key Features

Book TitleSteppe Ecosystems : Biological Diversity, Management and Restoration

Number of Pages346 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicLife Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Life Sciences / Biological Diversity

IllustratorYes

GenreScience

AuthorJuan Traba Diaz

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight28.6 Oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2013-021111

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal639.9

Table Of ContentPreface; Steppes across the World: An Overview with Emphasis on the Iberian Peninsula; Factors Determining Species Richness & Composition of Steppe Bird Communities in Peninsular Spain: Grass-Steppe vs. Shrub-Steppe Bird Species; Species Richness & Niche Differentiation of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in Mongolian Steppe Ecosystems; Diversity Patterns in the Steppe of Argentinean Southern Patagonia: Environmental Drivers & Impact of Grazing; The Vegetation Structure of the Mongolian Altai Mountain Steppes; Resilience or Vulnerability? Vegetation Patterns of a Central Tibetan Pastoral Ecotone; Estimation of Carbon Dioxide Exchange of Cascade Geochemically Conjugated Steppe Ecosystems in Salinity Condition; The Late Quaternary Paleoecology & Environmental History of Hortobágy, a Unique Mosaic Alkaline Steppe from the Heart of the Carpathian Basin; The Conservation of High-Interest Plant Species Offers the Chance to Preserve Unique & Vulnerable Representatives of Gypsum Steppes; The Cover of Steppe Vascular Plants by the Protected Area Network of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia); Recovery of Degraded Steppe Soils of Northern China after Grazing Exclusion; Effects of Ungulate Grazing on Soil Microbial Diversities in Inner Mongolian Steppes of Northern China; The Pseudo-Steppe of La Crau (Southeastern France): Origin, Management & Restoration of a Mediterranean Rangeland; Critical Review of the Algerian Experience to Manage The Land Degradation; Sustainable Development in the Caldenal (Argentina); Index.

SynopsisSteppe environments impose strong selection pressures on organisms due to limiting climate conditions. Biotic factors also exert important pressures on steppe organisms, which display notable and interesting adaptations. At the same time, steppes are among the most fragile and human-impacted ecosystems of the world. As a result of these ecological and conservation features, steppe ecosystems and organisms have long deserved the attention of ecologists, biogeographers and conservation biologists. Through the contribution of steppe ecology experts from different regions of the world, this volume aims to answer hot questions in steppe ecology and conservation such as how did present-day steppe ecosystems arise? Is the steppe a perfectly identifiable and homogeneous biome, or are there different types of steppes? If the latter is true, what are the abiotic and biotic factors that define steppe ecosystems? Do they function differently? In short, what is a steppe? Can we identify clearly steppe-specific taxa? Are their functional traits homogeneous across steppe ecosystems? How are their main biodiversity patterns?However, this book also responds to the current concern about the future of the worlds steppes, threatened by increasing land-use intensification, which brings out the need for their sustainable management on the basis of adequate scientific knowledge. Therefore, the chapters comprising this book not only diffuse current scientific knowledge on steppe ecosystems, which is not a minor aim, but provide cues and tools to evaluate their state and to scientifically inform and help their management. Let us hope these messages reach the adequate ears., Steppe environments impose strong selection pressures on organisms due to limiting climate conditions. Biotic factors also exert important pressures on steppe organisms, which display notable and interesting adaptations. At the same time, steppes are among the most fragile and human-impacted ecosystems of the world. As a result of these ecological and conservation features, steppe ecosystems and organisms have long deserved the attention of ecologists, biogeographers and conservation biologists. Through the contribution of steppe ecology experts from different regions of the world, this volume aims to answer hot questions in steppe ecology and conservation such as how did present-day steppe ecosystems arise? Is the steppe a perfectly identifiable and homogeneous biome, or are there different types of steppes? If the latter is true, what are the abiotic and biotic factors that define steppe ecosystems? Do they function differently? In short, what is a steppe? Can we identify clearly steppe-specific taxa? Are their functional traits homogeneous across steppe ecosystems? How are their main biodiversity patterns? However, this book also responds to the current concern about the future of the world's steppes, threatened by increasing land-use intensification, which brings out the need for their sustainable management on the basis of adequate scientific knowledge. Therefore, the chapters comprising this book not only diffuse current scientific knowledge on steppe ecosystems, which is not a minor aim, but provide cues and tools to evaluate their state and to scientifically inform and help their management. Let us hope these messages reach the adequate ears.

LC Classification NumberQH541.5.P7S738 2013