Biodiversity II : understanding and protecting our biological resources / Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Don E. Wilson, and Edward O. Wilson, editors.
"The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years." With those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (1988). Despite this and...
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| Other title: | Understanding and protecting our biological resources. Biodiversity 2. Biodiversity two. |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
1996.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edward O. Wilson
- Part I. The meaning and value of biodiversity ; Biodiversity : what is it? / Thomas E. Lovejoy
- Biodiversity : why is it important? / Ruth Patrick
- Part II. Patterns of the biosphere : how much diversity is there? ; Biodiversity at its utmost : tropical forest beetles / Terry L. Erwin
- Measuring global biodiversity and its decline / Nigel E. Stork
- Butterfly diversity and a preliminary comparison with bird and mammal diversity / Robert K. Robbins and Paul A. Opler
- The global diversity of coral reefs : a comparison with rain forests / Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla
- Common measures for studies of biodiversity : molecular phylogeny in the eukaryotic microbial world / Mitchell L. Sogin and Gregory Hinkle
- Part III. Threats to biodiversity : what have we lost and what might we lose? ; The rich diversity of biodiversity issues / Norman Myers
- Human-caused extinction of birds / David W. Steadman
- Global warming and plant species richness : a case study of the Paleocene/Eocene boundary / Scott L. Wing
- Plant response to multiple environmental stresses : implications for climatic change and biodiversity / Irwin N. Forseth
- Part IV. Understanding and using biodiversity ; Names : the keys to biodiversity / F. Christian Thompson
- Systematics : a keystone to understanding biodiversity / Ruth Patrick
- Biodiversity and systematics : their application to agriculture / Douglass R. Miller and Amy Y. Rossman
- Snout moths : unraveling the taxonomic diversity of a speciose group in the neotropics / M. Alma Solis
- Plylogeny and historical reconstruction : host-parasite systems as keystones in biogeography and ecology / Eric P. Hoberg
- Comparative behavioral and biochemical studies of Bowerbirds and the evolution of bower-building / Gerald Borgia
- Part V. Building toward a solution : new directions and applications ; Microbial biodiversity and biotechnology / Rita R. Colwell
- The impact of rapid gene discovery technology on studies of evolution and biodiversity / Carol J. Bult, Judith A. Blake, Mark D. Adams, Owen White, Granger Sutton, Rebecca Clayton, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Chris Fields, and J. Craig Venter
- Initial assessment of character sets from five nuclear gene sequences in animals / Timothy P. Friedlander, Jerome C. Regier, and Charles Mitter
- Gap analysis for biodiversity survey and maintenance / J. Michael Scott and Blair Csuti
- Conservation of biodiversity in neotropical primates / James M. Dietz
- Using marine invertebrates to establish research and conservation priorities / James D. Thomas
- Ecological restoration and the conservation of biodiversity / William R. Jordan, III
- Tropical sustainable development and biodiversity / Patrick Kangas
- Wildland biodiversity management in the tropics / Daniel H. Janzen
- Part VI. Getting the job done : institutional, human, and informational infrastructure ; Taxonomic preparedness : are we ready to meet the biodiversity challenge? / Quentin D. Wheeler and Joel Cracraft
- Museums, research collections, and the biodiversity challenge / Leslie J. Mehrhoff
- Resources for biodiversity in living collections and the challenges of assessing microbial biodiversity / Richard O. Roblin
- Integration of data for biodiversity initiatives / David F. Farr and Amy Y. Rossman
- Information management for biodiversity : a proposed U. S. national biodiversity information center / Bruce L. Umminger and Steve Young
- Part VII. Conclusions ; Santa Rosalia, the turning of the century, and a new age of exploration / Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Don E. Wilson, and Edward O. Wilson.