**ECOSYSTEMS BIODIVERSITY**

Edited by **Oscar Grillo**  and **Gianfranco Venora**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/913 Edited by Oscar Grillo and Gianfranco Venora

#### **Contributors**

Shaowen Ye, Zhongjie Li, Jiashou Liu, Tanglin Zhang, Songguang Xie, Fabio Taffetani, Michele Rismondo, Andrea Lancioni, João Silva Dias, Krystian Tadeusz Obolewski, Juan Jose Alava, Ben Haase, Stefania Marcheggiani, Laura Mancini, Ruth Gingold, Axayácatl Rocha Olivares, Cedric Hubas, Tom Moens, Aboulghasem Roohi, Seyedeh Ameneh Sajjadi, Gisele Dantas, Gustavo Cabanne, Fabrício Santos, Suresh Chand Rai, Alberto Martín Zazo, Patricia Miloslavich, Eduardo Klein, Yusbelly Díaz, Juan José Cárdenas, Carlos Andrés Lasso, Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá, Axel Decourtye, Cédric Alaux, Bernard Vaissičre, Mickaël Henry, Jean-François Odoux, Yves Le Conte, Leslie Robert Brown, Johan Du Preez, Pantaleo Kirari Thomas Munishi, Anjali Soni, Shirish Ranade, Nikhil Kumar, Amaia Pérez-Bilbao, Josefina Garrido, Cesar Joao Benetti, Rutger De Wit, Olga Maria Correia Chitas Ameixa, Pavel Kindlmann, Johan Svensson, John Jeglum, Anna Allard, Pernilla Christensen, Anders Glimskär, Saskia Sandring

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Ecosystems Biodiversity Edited by Oscar Grillo and Gianfranco Venora p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-417-7 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-5162-3
