Biodiversity. [1]

National Academies, 1988 - Science - 521 pages

This book calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing

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The Current State of Biological Diversity	3

PART	14

Causes and Consequences	21

Going Going	28

Ecological Diversity in Coastal Zones and Oceans	36

Diversity Crises in the Geological Past	51

Estimating Reductions in the Diversity of Tropical Forest Species	58

Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas	71

PART 7	261

Conservation of Biological Diversity in Botanical Gardens	269

Using Science and Technology to Reestablish Species Lost in Nature	279

Intensive Technology in the Care of Ex Situ Populations of Vanishing	289

Cryobiology Embryo Transfer and Artificial Insemination in Ex Situ	296

PART 8	309

Can We Do	317

Restoration of Degraded Lands in the Amazon Basin	326

PART 2	77

Screening Plants for New Medicines	83

What Good Are Weedy	98

TROPICAL FORESTS	117

The Heart of Biotic Diversity	123

The Most Endangered Major Tropical Ecosystem	130

Deforestation and Indians in Brazilian Amazonia	138

Case Studies from Brazil	145

PART 4	155

Structural and Functional Diversity in Temperate Forests	166

Diversity in and among Grasslands	176

Economics and the Preservation of Biodiversity	193

The Limits of Quantification	200

The Rise of the Global Exchange Economy and the Loss of Biological	206

Why Put a Value on Biodiversity?	212

PART 6	225

Information Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity	231

Identifying and Protecting the Origins of Our Food Plants	240

Some African Examples	248

Increasing Diversity by Restoring Damaged Ecosystems	333

The Search for a Social and Economic Context	344

Are There Alternatives to Destruction?	355

Agroecology and In Situ Conservation of Native Crop Diversity in	361

Research in Panama	370

Biological Engineering for Sustainable Biomass Production	377

Preserving Biological Diversity in the Tropical Forests of the Asian	393

Recent Progress and	403

International Development and the Protection of Biological Diversity	409

PART 11	419

A Perspective	428

A Major New Opportunity to Finance the Preservation of Biodiversity	437

And Today Were Going To Talk About Biodiversity Thats	446

Mind in the Biosphere Mind of the Biosphere	465

Cold Water Spirit	476

The Earth as a Living Organism	486

EPILOGUE	493

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About the author (1988)

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Title	Biodiversity. [1]
Author	Edward Osborne Wilson
Editors	Edward Osborne Wilson, Frances Marchbank Peter
Contributors	Edward Osborne Wilson, Frances Marchbank Peter, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Smithsonian Institution
Edition	11, illustrated, reprint
Publisher	National Academies, 1988
Length	521 pages
Subjects	Science › Life Sciences › Biological Diversity Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Science / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity

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