Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity
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Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity

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Thanks to advances in electronic archiving of biodiversity data and the digitization of climate and other geophysical data, a new era in biogeography, functional ecology, and evolutionary ecology has begun. In Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity, Christian Korner, Eva M. Spehn, and a team of experts from the Global Mountain Biodi

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781420083699
eBook ISBN
9781420083705

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Editors
  5. Contributors
  6. Chapter 1. Exploring and Explaining Mountain Biodiversity: The Role and Power of Geophysical Information Systems
  7. Chapter 2. Primary Biodiversity Data— The Foundation for Understanding Global Mountain Biodiversity
  8. Chapter 3. Using Primary Biodiversity Data in Mountain Species Numbers Assessments
  9. Chapter 4. The Global Need for, and Appreciation of, High-Quality Metadata in Biodiversity Database Work
  10. Chapter 5. A Possible Correlation between the Altitudinal and Latitudinal Ranges of Species in the High Elevation Flora of the Andes
  11. Chapter 6. Exploring Patterns of Plant Diversity in China’s Mountains
  12. Chapter 7. Elevational Pattern of Seed Plant Species Richness in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China: Area and Climate
  13. Chapter 8. Elevational Gradients of Species Richness Derived from Local Field Surveys versus "Mining" of Archive Data
  14. Chapter 9. Species Richness of Breeding Birds along the Altitudinal Gradient-An Analysis of Atlas Databases from Switzerland and Catalonia (NE Spain)
  15. Chapter 10. Diverse Elevational Diversity Gradients in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
  16. Chapter 11. Integrating Data across Biodiversity Levels: The Project IntraBioDiv
  17. Chapter 12. A Plant Functional Traits Database for the Alps—Application to the Understanding of Functional Effects of Changed Grassland Management
  18. Chapter 13. Using Species Occurrence Databases to Determine Niche Dynamics of Montane and Lowland Species since the Last Glacial Maximum
  19. Chapter 14. A Georeferenced Biodiversity Databank for Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change in Southern Italy Mountains
  20. Chapter 15. Using Georeferenced Databases to Assess the Effect of Climate Change on Alpine Plant Species and Diversity
  21. Chapter 16. The ā€œMountain Laboratoryā€ of Nature—A Largely Unexplored Mine of Information: Synthesis of the Book
  22. Chapter 17. Creative Use of Mountain Biodiversity Databases: The Kazbegi Research Agenda of GMBA-DIVERSITAS
  23. Index
  24. Back cover