This booklet presents details suitable for the conservation of biodiversity and the sound administration of the coastal and woodland ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula within the face of worldwide swap. a variety of points of the biodiversity of the Yucatan Peninsula are analyzed in an integrative demeanour, together with phenological, ecophysiological, ecological and conservation elements of crops and animals and their relationships with people in coastal and wooded area ecosystems.
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