BiodiversityEdward O. Wilson, Frances M. Peter 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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... chapter , Risser discusses the impact of humans on biological diversity in grasslands , the biome that has largely provided , either directly or indirectly , the food for the world's human population . Finally , in Chapter 20 , Vitousek ...
... chapter , Risser discusses the impact of humans on biological diversity in grasslands , the biome that has largely provided , either directly or indirectly , the food for the world's human population . Finally , in Chapter 20 , Vitousek ...
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... Chapter 36 , Joy Zedler discusses restoration of a temperate zone community , the tidal wetland . In Chapter 37 , Chris Uhl addresses the much - neglected subject of tropical forest restoration . The following two chapters turn to the ...
... Chapter 36 , Joy Zedler discusses restoration of a temperate zone community , the tidal wetland . In Chapter 37 , Chris Uhl addresses the much - neglected subject of tropical forest restoration . The following two chapters turn to the ...
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... chapter I summarize what we heard ( what the authors of this book have written ) , what we learned , and finally , what we might do to slow , or hopefully stop , the rapid , human - induced extinction of the Earth's great variety of ...
... chapter I summarize what we heard ( what the authors of this book have written ) , what we learned , and finally , what we might do to slow , or hopefully stop , the rapid , human - induced extinction of the Earth's great variety of ...
Contents
The Current State of Biological Diversity | 3 |
CHALLENGES TO THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY | 19 |
Going Going | 28 |
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Biodiversity E.O. Wilson,National Academy of Sciences (U.S.),Smithsonian Institution Snippet view - 1988 |
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