Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources

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Biodiversity is the whole of life on Earth - and every day it is diminished as human population growth and exploitation of land causes the extinction of animal and plant species. If the world does not act quickly and cooperatively, species numbering into the millions will be doomed. In the process, we lose opportunities in medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, and a host of other human endeavors. This is the warning sounded by some of the world's most renowned environmental authorities in Biodiversity II. In ...
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Biodiversity is the whole of life on Earth - and every day it is diminished as human population growth and exploitation of land causes the extinction of animal and plant species. If the world does not act quickly and cooperatively, species numbering into the millions will be doomed. In the process, we lose opportunities in medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, and a host of other human endeavors. This is the warning sounded by some of the world's most renowned environmental authorities in Biodiversity II. In words meaningful to lay readers and scientists alike, this book alerts us that we may soon be bereft of species that could help us fight disease and produce useful products - not to mention bringing us the wonder of natural life. Unlike other books on the topic, Biodiversity II tells us what can and must be done right now to preserve life on Earth. The experts who lend their voices to Biodiversity II explain how scientists study biodiversity, what they have learned about the scope of life on the planet, and what urgent questions remain. These experts advocate the fusion of resources already at our command - government biological surveys, private agencies, museum collections, universities - into a more effective force to better understand and protect the wealth of the natural world.
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A 10-year update and report on the concerns expressed at a 1986 forum and published in the best-selling "BioDiversity" by National Academy Press in 1988. Addresses the research and technological innovations in biodiversity studies, recent scientific findings, and trends in environmental conditions and responses to them. Accessible to non-scientists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780309052276
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1997
  • Edition description: REVISED
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 560
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.32 (h) x 1.19 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1
2 Biodiversity: What Is It? 7
3 Biodiversity: Why Is It Important? 15
4 Biodiversity at Its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles 27
5 Measuring Global Biodiversity and Its Decline 41
6 Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity 69
7 The Global Biodiversity of Coral Reefs: A Comparison with Rain Forests 83
8 Common Measures for Studies of Biodiversity: Molecular Phylogeny in the Eukaryotic Microbial World 109
9 The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues 125
10 Human-Caused Extinction of Birds 139
11 Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: A Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary 163
12 Plant Response to Multiple Environmental Stresses: Implications for Climatic Change and Biodiversity 187
13 Names: The Keys to Biodiversity 199
14 Systematics: A Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity 213
15 Biodiversity and Systematics: Their Application to Agriculture 217
16 Snout Moths: Unraveling the Taxonomic Diversity of a Speciose Group in the Neotropics 231
17 Phylogeny and Historical Reconstruction: Host-Parasite Systems as Keystones in Biogeography and Ecology 243
18 Comparative Behavioral and Biochemical Studies of Bowerbirds and the Evolution of Bower-Building 263
19 Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology 279
20 The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity
21 Initial Assessment of Character Sets from Five Nuclear Gene Sequences in Animals 301
22 Gap Analysis for Biodiversity Survey and Maintenance 321
23 Conservation of Biodiversity in Neotropical Primates 341
24 Using Marine Invertebrates to Establish Research and Conservation Priorities 357
25 Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity 371
26 Tropical Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 389
27 Wildland Biodiversity Management in the Tropics 411
28 Taxonomic Preparedness: Are We Ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge? 435
29 Museums, Research Collections, and the Biodiversity Challenge 447
30 Resources for Biodiversity in Living Collections and the Challenges of Assessing Microbial Biodiversity 467
31 Integration of Data for Biodiversity Initiatives 475
32 Information Management for Biodiversity: A Proposed U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center 491
33 Santa Rosalia, the Turning of the Century, and a New Age of Exploration 507
Photo Credits 525
Index 527
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