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Author Schilthuizen, Menno.

Title The loom of life : unravelling ecosystems / Menno Schilthuizen
Published Berlin ; London : Springer, [2008]
©2008

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Description xvi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Life in little worlds -- Leaky buckets -- Hidden riches -- No niche like home -- Neutral by nature -- In splendid isolation -- Ecology of wildcards -- The loom of life -- The age of atropos
Summary "How can thousands of tree species coexist in a patch of tropical rainforest where there seems to be just a handful of niches? Why does biodiversity boom at the equator and plummet at the poles? Questions like these are central to modern ecology, where the gap between the familiar "niche" and the staggering (but sharply decreasing) global biodiversity seems to become ever wider. This book helps students and the general reader to bridge that gap, by tip-toeing from the smallest to the largest ecosystems."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Biodiversity.
Biotic communities.
Biodiversity.
Biota.
LC no. 2008931032
ISBN 3540680519 (cased)
9783540680512 (cased)
9783540680581 (ebk.)