**DIVERSITY OF ECOSYSTEMS**

Edited by **Mahamane Ali**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2276 Edited by Mahamane Ali

#### **Contributors**

Alberto J Sánchez, Rosa Florido, Miguel Ángel Salcedo, Violeta Ruiz-Carrera, Hugo Montalvo-Urgel, Andrea Raz-Guzman, Raveendra H Patil, Hiroshi Miyake, Mitsugu Kitada, Toshishige Itoh, Suguru Nemoto, Tetsuya Miwa, Dhugal Lindsay, Laura Armendáriz, Alberto Rodrigues Capitulo, Fernando Spaccesi, Laura Mancini, Elena Eriksen, Selim Zedan Heneidy, Carlos Arturo Aguirre-Salado, Eduardo Javier Treviño-Garza, Oscar Alberto Aguirre-Calderón, Javier Jiménez-Pérez, Marco Aurelio González-Tagle, José René Valdéz-Lazalde, Diana Domingues, Cristiano Jacques Miosso, Lourdes Brasil, Rafael Morgado, Adson Ferreira Da Rocha, Venkata Sundaranand Putcha, Sofia Koukina, Aleksander Vetrov, Belyaev Nikolai, Robert Godfree, Craig Thomas Symes, Maciej Szanser, Pietro Picuno, Alfonso Tortora, Rocco Luigi Capobianco, Carmela Sica, Pavel Makarevich, Elena Druzhkova, Viktor Larionov, Lynne Atwood, David Clements, Enric Cortes, Andres F. Navia, Ferenc Jordán, Victor Cruz-Escalona, Paola Mejia-Falla, Mahamane Ali, Jean Lejoly, Mahamane Saadou, Boubé Morou, Amadou Oumani Abdoulaye, Maïnassara Zaman-Allah, Shinichi Watanabe

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