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- For his substantial contribution to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the author was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed on the IPCC in 2007 (equally with Al Gore and others)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent features a spectacular geographic diversity. Consequently, it is characterised by extremely variable climatic, edaphic and ecological conditions, associated with a wide range of natural vegetation and wildlife, as well as human population density, crops and livestock.
In this book, Henry Le Houérou presents his bioclimatic and biogeographic classification of Africa. The extensive data provide the basis for comparisons between various African regions, and with regions on other continents such as Latin America or the Indian subcontinent. The results constitute a rational basis for national, regional and sub-regional rural development planning, and for agricultural research dealing with aspects such as plant and animal introductions, the extrapolation or interpolation of experimental or developmental findings, and ecosystems dynamics. Possible problems of applications are also examined.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa
Authors: Henry Noël Houérou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85192-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85191-2Published: 06 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09893-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85192-9Published: 10 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 241
Topics: Biogeosciences, Natural Hazards, Climatology, Plant Ecology, Animal Ecology, Agriculture