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Biodiversity II : understanding and protecting our biological resources /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
1996.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.