Sub-chapter 2.4.3. Plant biodiversity and vegetation on Mediterranean islands in the face of global change
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19 novembre 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.irdeditions.23658
- isbn: 9782709922197
- eisbn: 9782709922203
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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changement climatique Méditerranée COP22 Allenvi Allenvi climatic change COP22 Mediterranean Environmental Studies NAT011000 RNKSujets proches
Biological diversity Biotic diversity Diversity, Biological Diversification, Biological Biological diversification Vegetable kingdom Plantae Plant kingdom Vegetation Wildlife Flora Isles IsletsCiter ce document
Frédéric Médail, « Sub-chapter 2.4.3. Plant biodiversity and vegetation on Mediterranean islands in the face of global change », IRD Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.23658
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Introduction The profound environmental heterogeneities and the complex historical biogeography explain the high diversity of landscapes and vegetation types in the Mediterranean Basin, one of the world’s biodiversity hot-spots (Médail & Myers, 2004). The associated high levels of biodiversity and ecological complexity have favored the emergence of functional uniqueness in several ecosystems and plant communities that occur nowhere else. With about 10,000 islands and islets (approx. 250 inhab...