Biodiversity in Drylands, the first internationally based synthesis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Series, unifies the concepts of species and landscape diversity with respect to deserts. Within this framework, the book treats several emerging themes, among them:

- how animal biodiversity can be supported in deserts
- diversity's relation to habitat structure, environmental variability, and species interactions
- the relation between spatial scale and diversity
- how to use a landscape simulation model to understand diversity
- microbial...