**BIODIVERSITY IN ECOSYSTEMS - LINKING STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION**

Edited by **Yueh-Hsin Lo, Juan A. Blanco**  and **Shovonlal Roy**

#### **Biodiversity in Ecosystems - Linking Structure and Function**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58494 Edited by Yueh-Hsin Lo, Juan A. Blanco and Shovonlal Roy

#### **Contributors**

Andre Johannes Pelser, Martin Reiss, Peter Chifflard, Franc Bavec, Martina Bavec, Victor Lionel Finot, Clodomiro Marticorena, Alicia Marticorena, Juan A. Barrera, Gloria Rojas, Victor Lionel Finot Saldías, Julio Portela, Javier Cristobo, Pilar Rios, Juan Acosta, Santiago Parra, Jose Luis Del Rio, Elena Tel, Araceli Muñoz, Virginia Polonio, Teodoro Ibarrola, Raul Vilela, Maria Barba, Pedro Marín, Yoshitaka Oishi, Keizo Tabata, Ricardo Loiola Edvan, Leilson Rocha Bezerra, Carlo Aldrovandi Torreão Marques, Ana Ribeiro De Barros, Natasha Sofia Ribeiro, Stephan Syampungani, David Nangoma, Nalukui M. Syampungani, Joana Falcão Salles, Stephanie Jurburg, Juan A. A. Blanco, Yueh-Hsin Lo, Clive Welham, Mike Wang, Suzane Margaret Fank-De-Carvalho, Nádia Silvia Silvia Somavilla, Maria Salete Marchioretto, Sônia Bao, Graham Yapp, Richard Malcolm Thackway, Carlos Oyarzun, Pedro A. Hervé-Fernández, Siu Mui Tsai, Dennis Goss Souza, Lucas William Mendes, Acácio Aparecido Navarrete, Antonio J Castro, Caryn C. Vaughn, Jason P. Julian, Kelsey N. Bowman, Marina García-Llorente, Shovonlal Roy, Jose Schoereder, Jeff Harvey, Miriama Malcicka, Bert Kohlmann, Alejandra Arroyo, Monika Springer, Danny Vásquez, Shinichi Watanabe, Enrica Roccotiello, Pietro Marescotti, Simone Di Piazza, Mauro Mariotti, Mirca Zotti, Grazia Cecchi, Márcio Viera, Suzane Bevilacqua Marcuzzo, Eduardo González Izquierdo, Gretel Geada López, Rogelio Sotolongo Sospedra, Barbarita Mitjans Moreno, Martín González González, José Sánchez Fonseca, Alfredo Jimenez González, Cesar Joao Benetti, Amaia Pérez-Bilbao, Josefina Garrido, Redwan Rahman

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