TY - CHAP AU - Ricardo C. Guerrero-Ferreira AU - Michele K. Nishiguchi ED - Jordi Lopez Pujol Y1 - 2011-09-22 PY - 2011 T1 - Bacterial Biodiversity in Natural Environments N2 - The term biodiversity defines not only all the variety of life in the Earth but also their complex interactions. Under the current scenario of biodiversity loss, and in order to preserve it, it is essential to achieve a deep understanding on all the aspects related to the biological interactions, including their functioning and significance. This volume contains several contributions (nineteen in total) that illustrate the state of the art of the academic research in the field of biological interactions in its widest sense; that is, not only the interactions between living organisms are considered, but also those between living organisms and abiotic elements of the environment as well as those between living organisms and the humans. BT - The Importance of Biological Interactions in the Study of Biodiversity SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/24547 DO - 10.5772/24547 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-20 ER -