| Description |
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Making clear why the future of biodiversity matters, this book unites a team of international experts to explore the wonder of the natural world. This book explains what biodiversity is and explores its evolution. It discusses the importance of the world's ecosystems and how directly or indirectly humans are responsible for the fate of nature. |
| Contents |
Origins of biodiversity -- Biodiversity and us -- Life's long and chequered career -- Evolution's atlas -- What is a species? -- Genes, genes, genes -- Ecology: function -- The web of nature -- What has biodiversity ever done for us? -- Valued landscapes -- Nature in the city -- Life in freshwater -- Fate: threats and solutions -- Going, going, gone: the sixth extinction -- The exhaustible sea -- Climate change -- Invasion planet Earth -- What next for nature?. |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Biodiversity. |
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Ecology.
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Ecology. |
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Environmental degradation.
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Environmental degradation. |
| Added Author |
Silvertown, Jonathan W.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Fragile web. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 (OCoLC)747652050 |
| ISBN |
9780226757810 paperback alkaline paper |
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0226757811 paperback alkaline paper |
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