- 192 pages
- English
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About this book
Biologist John Spicer shows how closely our future is linked with that of biodiversity while navigating readers through some key problems facing our planet, including mass extinctions, population explosions, habitat destruction, and pollution. Along the way, he provides valuable insight into the impact humans have had upon the earth and its inhabitants, whether efforts such as ecotourism really help, and how scientists and economists calculate the 'value' of biodiversity. Passionately argued, this book is a must for anyone who has an appreciation for nature and wants to understand the real issues at stake in preserving it.
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index
Action for Biodiversity in the South West
Afrotropics
Agenda 21
Agra vation
algae
allopatric speciation
altitude
Alvarez, Luis
Alvarez, Walter
amoeba
amphibians
angiosperms
Animalia
Annelida
Anomalocaris
aphids
arachnids
Archaebacteria
Archaeocyatha
Arcitalitrus
Aristotle
Study of Animals
Armillaria
Arthropoda
Ascaris
aspirin
Asterina gibbosa (cushion star)
atlas of biodiversity
Audobon’s Warbler
Aurelia aurita (common moon jellyfish)
Austin, Thomas
Australia, ecosystem destruction by rabbits
background extinction rate
bacteria (Monera)
Balaena musculus (blue whale)
Ball, Thomas
Baltic Sea
banana skipper butterfly
barnacles
Barth, Karl
Bauplan
beetles
Agra vation
Colorado beetle
belief systems
bequest value
Berry, Sam
big picture
binomen
biocapacity
BIODEPTH
Biodiversity
Biodiversity: An Introduction
biodiversity
definition
measurement of
use of
value of
Biodiversity and Conservation
biogeographical regions
biological control
biological key
biological species
Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species
Biophilia hypothesis
biosphere
Biosphere 1
Biosphere 2
birds, origin of
bivalve molluscs
bottom trawling
Brachiopoda
Bryozoa (sea mats)
Buffon, Count
Burgess Shale
Burrowing Bettong
bush meat
butterflies
banana skipper
Caenorhabitis elegans
calcium carbonate
Calvaria tree
Cambrian explosion
Cambrian period
carbon dioxide
Carboniferous period
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring
cassava mealybug
Cenozoic era
centipedes
cephalopods
Charnia
Charnia masoni (sea pen)
Chavez, Hugo
chelicerates
chemosynthesis
Chicxulub crater
Chordata (vertebrates and sea squirts)
Christianity
cichlids, extinction of
Clavelina (lightbulb sea squirt)
climate change
Closed Ecological Life Support System project
closed ecological systems
Cnidaria
Coelopa frigida (kelp fly)
co-endangered species
Cohen, Joel
coldspots
Colorado beetle
congruence
conservation
ex situ
in situ
Constanza, Robert
Convention on Biological Diversity
failures
responses to
successes
Conway-Morris, Simon
Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
The Crucible of Creation
copepods
coral reefs
destruction of
crabs
cradles of diversity
Crepidula fornicata
Cretaceous period
Crompton’s Orcutt grass
Crustacea
as food
cuttlefish
Cyanobacte...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- preface
- one the wood among which the trees are found
- two all creatures that on earth do dwell
- three where on earth is biodiversity?
- four diversity, extinction and deep time
- five crisis? what crisis?
- six no such thing as a free lunch
- seven leaving the world as you would like to find it
- eight the ring of living beauty
- further reading and website references
- appendix
- index