Biodiversity: A Reference HandbookCurrent threats to biodiversity, extinction of species, and major changes in human behavior that experts think are needed to conserve existing biodiversity are all addressed. Successful examples of biodiversity conservation provide a hopeful conclusion for the book. Filled with data, anecdotes, and examples, Biodiversity will capture the interest of a variety of readers from students to scientists. |
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... biologists respond with numbers of between 5 and 50 million . The vast disparity among estimates is due to differing hypotheses of how many undiscovered species might exist . Most of the larger species have been identified already ...
... biologists respond with numbers of between 5 and 50 million . The vast disparity among estimates is due to differing hypotheses of how many undiscovered species might exist . Most of the larger species have been identified already ...
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... Biologists have not deter- mined whether the number of tigers left will be sufficient to maintain the species . If not , Siberian tigers will join four other species of tiger that have met extinction during the last 50 years : the Bali ...
... Biologists have not deter- mined whether the number of tigers left will be sufficient to maintain the species . If not , Siberian tigers will join four other species of tiger that have met extinction during the last 50 years : the Bali ...
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... biologist who has spent many years managing a research station in Peru's Amazonian Basin , grapples with erudite ... biologists who study and strive to protect their chosen species . Ackerman mixes biographies of her human companions ...
... biologist who has spent many years managing a research station in Peru's Amazonian Basin , grapples with erudite ... biologists who study and strive to protect their chosen species . Ackerman mixes biographies of her human companions ...
Contents
Chronology | 53 |
Biographical Sketches | 71 |
Statistics Illustrations and Documents | 91 |
Copyright | |
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