The biodiversity crisis : losing what counts /
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New York :
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Biodiversity: wildlife in trouble / Edward O. Wilson
- Profile: Abebe Getahun
- What's this biodiversity and what's it done for us today? / Norman Myers
- Case study: the Audubon guide to seafood
- Deforestation in the tropics / Robert C. Repetto
- Biodiversity and human health / Francesca T. Grifo
- Profile: Kevin Browngoehl
- Biodiversity: what it is and why we need it / Paul R. Ehrlich, Simon A. Levin
- Hot spots / David Ehrenfeld
- Case study: the Green Guerillas, New York City
- What have we lost, what are we losing? / Peter H. Raven
- Profile: Amy Vedder
- Chemical prospecting: the new natural history / Thomas Eisner
- Profile: Dolores R. Santoliquido
- Evolution, extinction, and humanity's place in nature / Niles Eldredge
- Case study: St. Lucia parrot recovery
- Profile: Clare Flemming
- The 40,000-year plague: humans, hyperdisease, and first-contact extinctions / Ross D.E. MacPhee, Preston A. Marx
- Prehistoric extinctions and ecological changes on Oceanic Islands / Helen F. James
- Case study: brown-eyed, milk-giving... and extinct: losing mammals since A.D. 1500
- Global warming, loss of habitat, and pollution: introduction to "Thompson's ice corps," "nest gains, nest losses," and "hormonal sabotage" / Kefyn M. Catley
- Thompson's ice corps / Mark Bowen
- Nest gains, nest losses / Scott K. Robinson
- Case study: Lake Victoria
- Hormonal sabotage / Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
- Case study: reefs in crisis
- The new geologic force: man / Fairfield Osborn
- Profile: Jane Goodall
- Case study: Humpback Whale Conservation Genetics Project, Madagascar
- Conservation biology and wildlife management in America: a historical perspective / Curt Meine
- Profile: Jaime A. Pinkham
- Managing the biosphere: the essential role of systematic biology / Joel Cracraft
- Case study: Wilderness Preservation Act, U.S.A.
- How to grow a wildland: the gardenification of nature / Daniel H. Janzen
- Case study: the Belize Ethnobotany Reserve project
- Profile: Penelope Bodry-Sanders
- The economic value of earth's resources / Graciela Chichilnisky
- Profile: Michael Balick
- Case study: Jaguars
- Strategies and solutions: mapping the biodiversity / Prashant M. Hedao
- Community-based approaches for combining conservation and development / Nick Salafsky
- Case study: restoration of the Elwha River by dam removal, Washington
- No free lunch in the rain forest / Charles M. Peters.