Biodiversity /
This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike 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. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National...
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Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1988.
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Table of Contents:
- Challenges to the preservation of biodiversity.
- Human dependence in biological diversity.
- Diversity at risk: tropical forests.
- Diversity at risk: the global perspective.
- The value of biodiversity.
- How is biodiversity monitored and protected.
- Science and technology: how can they help?
- Restoration ecology: can we recover lost ground?
- Alternatives to destruction.
- Policies to protect diversity.
- Present problems and future prospects.
- Ways of seeing the biosphere.
- Epilogue.