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  title info:
    title: Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa
  name:
    name part: Houérou, Henry Noël Le.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 241 p. online resource.
  abstract: Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the 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. Henry Le Houérou (Montpellier, France) For his substantial contribution to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed on the IPCC in 2007 (equally with Al Gore and others).
  table of contents: Bioclimatic Classification -- Land Degradation, Desertization and Rehabilitation -- Conclusions.
  note: by Henry Noël Le Houérou.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: QH343.4
  classification: 550
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85192-9
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