Zonal Biomes of Southern Africa

Mucina, Ladislav, Rutherford, Michael C.

Zonal Biomes of Southern Africa
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-29
  • 售價: $9,440
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $8,968
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 376
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031637305
  • ISBN-13: 9783031637308

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商品描述

This book is the first comprehensive account of large-scale ecosystems (biomes) of Southern Africa (defined as area south of the Kunene and Zambezi Rivers). It addresses the diversity of biomes in one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, comprising South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern part of Mozambique, Eswatini, and Lesotho. It has adopted a novel, hierarchical biome-classification approach. The biomes at four levels of complexity are identified, described, and mapped using modern GIS-assisted mapping technology. The structure of the book and its comprehensive nature makes this product of prime interest to teachers and students of all tertiary education levels as well as to scientists in the fields of ecology, biodiversity science, and bioclimatology. It is poised to serve as a major reference book and handbook for the users in these scientific fields.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是南非大規模生態系統（生物群系）的第一部綜合性著作（定義為庫內內河和贊比西河以南的區域）。它探討了世界上最具生物多樣性的地區之一的生物群系多樣性，該地區包括南非、納米比亞、博茨瓦納、津巴布韋、莫三比克南部、斯威士蘭和萊索托。書中採用了新穎的分層生物群系分類方法。以四個複雜度層級識別、描述並使用現代地理資訊系統（GIS）輔助的地圖技術進行繪製。這本書的結構及其全面性使其成為所有高等教育層級的教師和學生，以及生態學、生物多樣性科學和生物氣候學領域科學家的主要興趣所在。它將成為這些科學領域使用者的重要參考書籍和手冊。

作者簡介

Professor Ladislav (Laco) Mucina, 68 years young, was born in then Czechoslovakia (today Slovakia). He is currently citizen of Austria and Australia, and holder of permanent residency in South Africa. Almost his entire professional life he served the International Association for Vegetation Science in various management and executive capacities. His scientific interests span vegetation science (especially vegetation surveys, classification, and mapping), ecology of world biomes, plant taxonomy, molecular phylogeny, population ecology, evolutionary biology, biogeography, biodiversity science, environmental management, plant community restoration, and conservation biology.

Dr Michael C. Rutherford was born in South Africa 76 years ago, and currently resides in the United Kingdom. During his research career he was employed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute and its forerunners, based in Windhoek (Namibia), Pretoria and Cape Town, and he served on several national research committees. He was first author of the seminal work on Biomes of Southern Africa in 1986 and was co-editor of the standard work on the Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in 2006. He led the study on the plant diversity component of the South African country report on climate change in 2000. His research has also spanned primary production ecology, ecophysiology, ecological impacts of invasive alien plants, pollution and allelochemical effects, land transformation and biodiversity conservation including, more recently, the impacts of herbivore-driven land degradation on plant diversity.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

教授拉迪斯拉夫（拉科）穆奇納，68歲，出生於當時的捷克斯洛伐克（現今的斯洛伐克）。他目前是奧地利和澳大利亞的公民，並持有南非的永久居留權。在他的職業生涯中，幾乎全程服務於國際植被科學協會，擔任各種管理和執行職位。他的科學興趣涵蓋植被科學（特別是植被調查、分類和繪圖）、全球生物群落的生態學、植物分類學、分子系統發生學、種群生態學、演化生物學、生物地理學、生物多樣性科學、環境管理、植物群落恢復和保育生物學。

邁克爾·C·拉瑟福德博士，76年前出生於南非，目前居住在英國。在他的研究生涯中，他曾在南非國家生物多樣性研究所及其前身工作，這些機構位於溫得和克（納米比亞）、比勒陀利亞和開普敦，並在幾個國家研究委員會中任職。他是1986年《南部非洲生物群落》一書的第一作者，並於2006年共同編輯了《南非、萊索托和史瓦帝尼的植被》這本標準著作。他於2000年主導了南非氣候變遷國家報告中植物多樣性部分的研究。他的研究還涵蓋了初級生產生態學、生態生理學、外來入侵植物的生態影響、污染和化學抑制效應、土地轉型及生物多樣性保護，包括最近對草食性動物驅動的土地退化對植物多樣性的影響。

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