William J. Bond

Open Ecosystems

Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge

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Explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of 'open ecosystems' which include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-886930-6
EAN: 9780198869306
Produktnummer: 34944982
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm

Über den Autor

William Bond is an Emeritus Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town. He served as Chief Scientist for the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) from 2014 to 2018. He is an ecologist with broad interests in the processes most strongly influencing vegetation change in the past and present, including fire, vertebrate herbivory, atmospheric CO2, and climate change. In addition, Professor Bond has worked on plant-animal mutualismsand on plant form and function. Particular research interests include grasslands and savannas, and winter-rainfall shrublands. He has served on the Boards of the South African National Botanical Institute and of Cape Nature and on the editorial boards of several journals. He has published more than200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and co-authored three books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and was made a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.