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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 73
Page 24
... Countries whose land is still in its natural state are now losing it rapidly , with the greatest losses occurring in countries with the greatest amount of wilderness . Loss of Habitat in Figures Figures from the 1980s show that Africa ...
... Countries whose land is still in its natural state are now losing it rapidly , with the greatest losses occurring in countries with the greatest amount of wilderness . Loss of Habitat in Figures Figures from the 1980s show that Africa ...
Page 34
... countries contain most of the world's species in their biodiverse ecosystems . But as rich as they are biologically , they are financially impoverished . Most of these countries owe huge sums of money to international lending ...
... countries contain most of the world's species in their biodiverse ecosystems . But as rich as they are biologically , they are financially impoverished . Most of these countries owe huge sums of money to international lending ...
Page 163
... countries make their own biodiversity assessments , establishing national biodiversity centers , identifying countries with high numbers of endemic species , and monitoring indicators of ecosystem quality and conditions . Publications ...
... countries make their own biodiversity assessments , establishing national biodiversity centers , identifying countries with high numbers of endemic species , and monitoring indicators of ecosystem quality and conditions . Publications ...
Contents
Chronology | 53 |
Biographical Sketches | 71 |
Statistics Illustrations and Documents | 91 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
agriculture American areas biodiversity biological diversity biologists birds Bullfrog Films carbon dioxide chapter chemical conservation and sustainable conservationists Costa Rica countries crops Date deforestation describes E-mail E. O. Wilson earth ecological communities economic ecosys ecosystems Endangered Species Act endemic environment environmental ethnobotanists ex-situ conservation extinction farmers fish Gaia Gaia Hypothesis genes global INBio indigenous insects Institute International ISBN Island issues IUCN keystone species Knight Ridder land Length living low-income discount Source Media medicines Merck minutes each Price minutes Price national park native natural habitat number of species ocean organizations P.O. Box percent pesticides pollinators pollution population predators preserve Print Resources programs protect purchase rental restoration Rica's scientific scientists seeds strategies survival sustainable development threatened threats tion traditional tree tropical rain forests Vandana Shiva variety Video Project Washington wetlands wild Wildlife World Wildlife Fund York