Biodiversity

by Lévêque, Christian Mounolou, Jean-Claude

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"Biodiversity" provides an overview of knowledge about the diversity of the living world and the various problems associated with its conservation and sustainable use. It presents key conservation issues within a framework of global case studies.

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Full title :Biodiversity / Christian Lévêque, Jean-Claude Mounolou.

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Publication Date:2003.

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Publisher(s):John Wiley and Sons
Place of Publication:Chichester
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

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Description:xi, 284 s. : : illustrations

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ISBN:0470849576, 9780470849576, 0470849568, 9780470849569
oclc:ocn475482981
LC Classification:QH541.15.B56
Dewey Decimal:333.95

Introduction; 1 Brief history of a concept: why be concerned with biological diversity? 1.1 What does biodiversity refer to? 1.2 The origins of the Convention on Biological Diversity and what is at stake -- 1.3 What is changing?; 2 Biological diversity: what do we know? 2.1 The classification of living organisms -- underlying principles -- 2.2 The inventory of species -- 2.3 Systematics, computer technology and the internet -- 2.4 measuring biological diversity -- 2.5 The geographic distribution of biological diversity; 3 The mechanisms at work in the diversification of life -- 3.1 What is life? 3.2 Origins and dynamics of intra- and interspecific genetic diversity -- 3.3 How are species born? 3.4 Extinctions -- 3.5 Adaptation: a fundamental property of living organisms -- 3.6 Major stages in the diversification of the living world -- 3.7 Is the evolution of life predetermined?; 4 The species richness of natural communities as a result of equilibrium/non-equilibrium processes -- 4.1 Theories of equilibrium.