"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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A counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversit…
Ecological science is changing because of a recent discovery: Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships with creatures that have long been extinct. In this book, the author shows how this idea of "missing partners" in nature evolved from…
Extinction, species, conservation, sustainable use, population, genetic diversity.
Extinction, species, conservation, sustainable use, population, genetic diversity.
What promotes biological diversity? Accurately recognising and describing patterns of diversity is fundamental to understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes underpinning diversification. The history of living organisms is expressed at multiple dimensions, ranging fr…
