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The importance of the Neotropics to the world’s climate, biogeochemical cycling and biodiversity cannot be questioned.� This book suggests that gradients are key to understanding both these issues and Neotropical ecosystem structure, function and dynamics in general.� Those gradients are either spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal, where many temporal and spatio-temporal gradients are initiated by disturbances (e.g., tree-fall, landslide, cultivation).� And in particular for the Neotropics, three large spatial gradients – latitude, longitude,�altitude (elevation) – are of critical importance.� The editor has over 30 years of experience investigating Neotropical gradients in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Peru and Ecuador, and has published 5 previous books on different aspects of the Neotropics.� Once again he has assembled top-shelf Neotropical scientists and researchers, here to focus on gradients: their nature, interactions and how they structure ecosystems.Typham this is the title: Neotropical Gradients and Their Analysis