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Biodiversity. [1]

, Part 3
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National Academies Press, 1988 - Science - 521 pages
The diversity of life forms is one of the greatest wonders of the planet earth. The biosphere is an intricate tapestry of interwoven life forms. This book offers an overall view of this biological diversity and carries an urgent warning about the rapid alteration and destruction of the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years. The source of this book is the National Forum on BioDiversity, held in Washington, D.C., on September 21-24, 1986, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution. The forum featured more than 60 leading biologists, economists, agricultural experts, philosophers, representatives of assistance and lending agencies, and other professionals. Included in this book are 57 papers presented at the forum. Topics include: (1) "The Current State of Biological Diversity"; (2) "Challenges to the Preservation of Biodiversity"; (3) "Human Dependence on Biological Diversity"; (4) "Diversity at Risk: Tropical Forests"; (5) "Diversity at Risk: The Global Perspective"; (6) "The Value of Biodiversity"; (7) "How is Biodiversity Monitored and Protected?"; (8) "Science and Technology: How Can They Help?"; (9) "Restoration Ecology: Can We Recover Lost Ground?"; (10) "Alternatives to Destruction"; (11) "Policies to Protect Diversity"; (12) "Present Problems and Future Prospects"; (13) "Ways of Seeing the Biosphere"; and (14) "Epilogue." (CW)
  

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This book contains a series of scientific articles regarding biodiversity. Some are quite specific (taxonomy, ecology, biotechnology, etc.), while others are more readily accessible for common readers ... Read full review

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Contents

The Current State of Biological Diversity
5
The Loss of Diversity Causes and COnsequences
21
Tropical Forests and Their Species Going Going
28
Ecological Diversity in Coastal Zones and Oceans
36
Diversity Crises in the Geological Past
51
Estimating Reduction in the Diversity of Tropical Forest Species
58
Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas
71
Deep Ecology Meets the Developing World
79
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 Species
289
Cryobiology Embryo Transfer and Artificial Insemination in Ex Situ Animal Conversation Programs
296
Ecological Restoration Reflection on a HalfCentury of Experience at the University of WisconsinMadison Arboretum
311
Restoring Diversity in Salt Marches Can We Do It?
317
Restoration of Degraded Lands in the Amazon Basin
326
Increasing Diversity by Restoring Damaged Ecosystems
333

Screening Plants for New Medicines
83
Serendipity in the Exploration of Biodiversity What Good Are Weedy Tomatoes?
98
The Outlook for New Agricultural and Industrial Products from the Tropics
106
Our Diminishing Tropical Forests
119
The Tropical Forest Canopy The Heart of Biotic Diversity
123
Tropical Dry Forest Canopy The Heart of Biotic Diversity
130
Deforestation and Indians in Brazillian Amazonia
138
Primate Diversity and the Tropical Forest Case Studies from Brazil and Madagascar and the Importance of the Megadiversity Countries
145
Lessons from MediterraneanClimate Regions
157
Structural and Functional Diversity in Temperate Forests
166
Diversity in and among Grasslands
176
Diversity and Biological Invasions of Oceanic Islands
181
Economics and the Preservation of Biodiversity
193
Commodity Amenity and Morality The Limits of Quantification in Valuing Biodiversity
200
The Rise of the Global Exchange Economy and the Loss of Biological Diversity
206
Why Put a Value on Biodiversity
212
What Mainstream Economics Have to Say About the Value of Biodiversity
217
Monitoring Biological Diversity for Setting Priorities in Conversation
227
Information Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity
231
Identifying and Protecting the Origins of Our Food Plants
240
Conserving and Monitoring Biotic Diversity Some African Examples
248
Can Technology Aid Species Preservation?
263
Restoring Diversity 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 the Third World
361
Alternatives to Destruction Research in Panama
370
Biological Engineering for Sustainable Biomass Production
377
Preserving Biological Diversity in the Tropical Forests of the Asian Region
393
The Tropical Forestry Action Plan Progress and New Initiatives
403
International Development and the Protection of Biological Diversity
409
Diverse Considerations
421
The Conservation of Biodiversity in Latin America a Perspective
428
A Major New Opportunity to Finance the Preservation of Biodiversity
437
And Today Were Going To Talk About Biodiversity Thats Right Biodiversity
446
The Effect of Global Climatic Change on Natural Communities
450
Mind in the Biosphere Mind of the Biosphere
465
A Mammal Gallery Five Word Pictures and Three Poems
470
Cold Water Spirit
476
A Christian View of Biodiversity
481
The Earth as a Living Organism
486
Epilogue
493
Index
497
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Biodiversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health ...
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Rainforest s are among the most biodiverse ecosystem s on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of life There are a number of ...
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The source of this book is the National Forum on biodiversity, held in Washington, dc, on September 21-24, 1986, under the auspices of the National Academy ...
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biodiversity n. The number and variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region. The variability among living organisms on the earth,
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Biodiversity
Calls attention to the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development ...
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Biodiversity risk assenssment of South Africa's Municipalities /
‘Biodiversity’ itself is seen to embody concepts not only of the variety of life, but additionally of the importance of that ...
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Biodiversity —— 维客(wiki)
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Title: Biodiversity, Edward Osborne Wilson, editor. Languages-M: English ... Notes-M: Papers from the National Forum on Biodiversity held September 21-25, ...
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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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TitleBiodiversity. [1], Part 3
AuthorE. O. Wilson
EditorsE. O. Wilson, Frances Marchbank Peter
Photographs byFrances Marchbank Peter
ContributorsE. O. Wilson, Frances Marchbank Peter, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Smithsonian Institution
Edition11, illustrated, reprint
PublisherNational Academies Press, 1988
ISBN0309037395, 9780309037396
Length521 pages
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