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UNINA9910462587103321 |
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Titolo |
The functional consequences of biodiversity [[electronic resource] ] : empirical progress and theoretical extensions / / Ann P. Kinzig, Stephen W. Pacala, and David Tilman, editors |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2001 |
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1-299-05148-0 |
1-4008-4730-3 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Monographs in Population Biology ; ; 33 |
Monographs in population biology ; ; 33 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KinzigAnn P (Ann Patricia) |
PacalaStephen W |
TilmanDavid <1949-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biodiversity |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-357) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Empirical progress -- pt. 2. Theoretical extensions -- pt. 3. Applications and future directions. |
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Does biodiversity influence how ecosystems function? Might diversity loss affect the ability of ecosystems to deliver services of benefit to humankind? Ecosystems provide food, fuel, fiber, and drinkable water, regulate local and regional climate, and recycle needed nutrients, among other things. An ecosyste's ability to sustain functioning may depend on the number of species residing in the ecosystem--its biological diversity--but this has been a controversial hypothesis. There are many unanswered questions about how and why changes in biodiversity could alter ecosystem functioning. This volume, written by top researchers, synthesizes empirical studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and extends that knowledge using a novel and coordinated set of models and theoretical approaches. These experimental and theoretical analyses demonstrate that functioning usually increases with biodiversity, but also reveals when and under what circumstances other relationships between |
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biodiversity and ecosystem functioning might occur. It also accounts for apparent changes in diversity-functioning relationships that emerge over time in disturbed ecosystems, thereby addressing a major controversy in the field. The volume concludes with a blueprint for moving beyond small-scale studies to regional ones--a move of enormous significance for policy and conservation but one that will entail tackling some of the most fundamental challenges in ecology. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Juan Armesto, Claudia Neuhauser, Andy Hector, Clarence Lehman, Peter Kareiva, Sharon Lawler, Peter Chesson, Teri Balser, Mary K. Firestone, Robert Holt, Michel Loreau, Johannes Knops, David Wedin, Peter Reich, Shahid Naeem, Bernhard Schmid, Jasmin Joshi, and Felix Schläpfer. |
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UNINA9911019370803321 |
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The handbook of bilingualism / / edited by Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Malden, MA, USA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
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9786610284689 |
1-280-28468-4 |
1-78034-230-6 |
0-470-75674-8 |
978140512900X |
1-4051-6619-3 |
0-470-75699-3 |
1-4051-2900-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (904 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BhatiaTej K |
RitchieWilliam C |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 |
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Foundations of Bilingualism; 2 Studying Bilinguals Methodological and Conceptual Issues; 3 Bilingual Aphasia; 4 The Bilingual Child; 5 Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition; 6 Two Linguistic Systems in Contact Grammar Phonology and Lexicon; 7 The Comprehension of Words and Sentences in Two Languages; 8 Speech Production in Bilinguals; 9 Bilingual Memory; 10 Bilingualism Language Emotion and Mental Health; 11 Code Switching and Grammatical Theory |
12 Sign Language Spoken Language Bilingualism Code Mixing and Mode Mixing by ASL English Bilinguals13 Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing; 14 Bilingual Accommodation; 15 The Bilingual and Multilingual Community; 16 Language Maintenance Language Shift and Reversing Language Shift; 17 Minority and Endangered Languages; 18 Multilingualism in Linguistic History Creolization and Indigenization; 19 Bilingualism and Gender; 20 Bilingualism in the Global Media and Advertising; 21 What |
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This handbook provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual's brain to the various forms of bilingual education. |
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