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Biodiversity / E. O. Wilson, editor, Frances M. Peter, associate editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- National Forum on BioDiversity, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- National Forum on BioDiversity (1986 : Washington, D.C.)
- National Forum on BioDiversity.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biodiversity conservation--Congresses.
- Biodiversity conservation.
- Biodiversity--Congresses.
- Biodiversity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Intended for scientists and nonscientists, this book focuses on the loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. It creates a framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.
- Contents:
- Biodiversity
- Copyright
- EDITOR'S FOREWORD
- Contents
- Chapter 1 The Current State of Biological Diversity
- THE AMOUNT OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- THE NATURAL LONGEVITY OF SPECIES
- RAIN FORESTS AS CENTERS OF DIVERSITY
- HOW MUCH DIVERSITY IS BEING LOST?
- HOW FAST IS DIVERSITY DECLINING?
- WHAT CAN BE DONE?
- References
- PART 1 CHALLENGES TO THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
- Chapter 2 The Loss of Diversity Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 3 Tropical Forests and Their Species Going, Going … ?
- TROPICAL FORESTS
- EXTINCTION RATES: FUTURE
- TROPICAL FOREST AND CLIMATIC CHANGE
- REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION
- Chapter 4 Ecological Diversity in Coastal Zones and Oceans
- COASTS AND OCEANS-A WORLD VIEW
- LIFE ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF TAXONOMY
- ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- CONCLUSIONS IN PROSPECT
- Chapter 5 Diversity Crises in the Geological Past
- THE PHANEROZOIC RECORD OF EXTINCTION
- EXTINCTION RATES IN DEEP TIME
- EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES OF PAST EXTINCTIONS
- EXTINCTION IN SHALLOW TIME: THE PLEISTOCENE EXPERIENCE
- RESEARCH FOR THE FUTURE
- Chapter 6 Estimating Reductions in the Diversity of Tropical Forest Species
- THE ACCEPTED VIEW
- NUMBER OF SPECIES IN THE TROPICS
- RATE OF CHANGE IN TROPICAL FOREST AREAS
- DIVERSITY OF FOREST TYPES IN THE TROPICS
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEFORESTATION RATE AND LOSS OF SPECIES
- SEEKING A BETTER ESTIMATE
- CALLING ATTENTION TO THE POSITIVE TERMS IN THE SPECIES EXTINCTION ISSUE
- NEED FOR BETTER LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter 7 Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas
- PART 2 HUMAN DEPENDANCE ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- Chapter 8 Deep Ecology Meets the Developing World
- Chapter 9 Screening Plants for New Medicines.
- THE GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF PLANT-DERIVED DRUGS
- THE IMPORTANCE OF HERBAL DRUGS
- In Hong Kong
- In Japan
- In the People's Republic of China
- THE SEARCH FOR NEW PLANT DRUGS
- Use of the NAPRALERT Data Base
- PHARMACOLOGICAL INTEREST IN NATURAL PRODUCTS
- APPROACHES TO DRUG DISCOVERY FROM PLANTS
- LACK OF INTEREST IN NEW DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAMS FROM PLANTS
- SUMMARY
- Chapter 10 Serendipity in the Exploration of Biodiversity What Good are Weedy Tomatoes?
- THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW TOMATO
- HOW MUCH IS A WILD TOMATO WORTH?
- A NEW SPECIES OF WILD MAIZE
- THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION
- Chapter 11 The Outlook for new Agricultural and Industrial Products from the Tropics
- AGRICULTURE
- NEW CROPS
- IMPROVEMENT OF CROP SPECIES THROUGH CROSS-BREEDING
- NATURAL PESTICIDES
- INDUSTRY
- FATS AND OILS
- FIBERS
- THE ROLE OF THE ETHNOBOTANIST
- PART 3 DIVERSITY AT RISK: TROPICAL FORESTS
- Chapter 12 Our Diminishing Tropical Forests
- Chapter 13 The Tropical Forest Canopy The Heart of Biotic Diversity
- THE PROBLEM
- THE HISTORY
- Chapter 14 Tropical Dry Forests The Most Endangered Major Tropical Ecosystem
- DIVERSITY IN THE DRY FOREST
- A MANY-FACED THREAT
- FUTURE PROSPECTS
- Chapter 15 Deforestation and Indians in Brazilian Amazonia
- THE YANOMAMI OF NORTHERN BRAZIL
- THE KAYAPO OF CENTRAL BRAZIL
- THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF SHIFTING CULTIVATION
- INDIAN PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICAL FOREST
- THE IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION ON INDIAN LIFE
- INDIAN MANAGERS OF THE RAIN FORESTS
- Chapter 16 Primate Diversity and the Tropical Forest Case Studies from Brazil and Madagascar and Importance of the…
- PART 4 DIVERSITY AT RISK: THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
- Chapter 17 Lessons from Mediterranean-Climate Regions
- COMMUNITY DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE REGIONS
- MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE FLORISTIC DIVERSITY
- South Africa
- California
- The Mediterranean Basin
- INCREASING BIOTIC DIVERSITY-THE INVADERS
- Chapter 18 Structural and Functional Diversity in Temperate Forests
- MAINTAINING SUCCESSIONAL STATES
- MAINTAINING STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY
- PROTECTING AQUATIC DIVERSITY
- DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS
- INCORPORATING BIODIVERSITY OBJECTIVES INTO MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 19 Diversity in and Among Grasslands
- GRAZING AND AGRICULTURE CONVERSIONS
- MORE SUBTLE IMPACTS
- Chapter 20 Diversity and Biological Invasions of Oceanic Islands
- SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
- WHY ARE ISLANDS SUSCEPTIBLE?
- IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEM SPECIES
- Herbivorous Mammals
- Predators
- Ecosystem-Level Effects
- Invasion of Intact Native Ecosystems
- IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL HABITATS
- HABITAT DESTRUCTION
- ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON ISLANDS
- PART 5 THE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY
- Chapter 21 Economics and the Preservation of Biodiversity
- Chapter 22 Commodity, Amenity, and Morality The Limits of Quantification in Valuing Biodiversity
- Chapter 23 The Rise of the Global Exchange Economy and the Loss of Biological Diversity
- Chapter 24 Why Put a Value on Biodiversity?
- Chapter 25 What Mainstream Economists Have to Say About the Value Biodiversity
- WELFARE CHANGE MEASUREMENT IMPLEMENTS AN EXPLICIT ETHICAL FRAMEWORK
- THE ECONOMIC APPROACH IS NOT LIMITED TO THE COMMERCIAL DOMAIN
- THERE IS AN (ALMOST) ADEQUATE CONCEPTUAL BASIS FOR ECONOMIC VALUATION OF BIODIVERSITY.
- TECHNIQUES FOR EMPIRICAL VALUATION EXIST AND ARE APPLICABLE TO MANY BIODIVERSITY ISSUES, BUT LACK OFINFORMATION CAN BE…
- POLICY DECISION CRITERIA HAVE BEEN PROPOSED
- THE EMPIRICAL CUPBOARD IS NOT BARE
- FURTHER COMMENTS ON THE MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS APPROACH
- PART 6 HOW IS BIODIVERSITY MONITORED AND PROTECTED
- Chapter 26 Monitoring Biological Diversity for Setting Priorities in Conservation
- THE GAP ANALYSIS CONCEPT
- AN UNDERLYING CONCEPT
- Chapter 27 Information Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity
- NATURAL HERITAGE DATA CENTERS
- NETWORKING AND CENTRAL DATA BASES
- APPLICATIONS OF THE DATA
- INTERACTIONS WITH SCIENTISTS AND THE PUBLIC
- Chapter 28 Identifying and Protecting the Origins of Our Food Plants
- THE INTERNATIONAL BOARD FOR PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES PROGRAM
- CROP ORIGINS AND GERMPLASM USE
- EVALUATION OF THE RESOURCES
- SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT FOR GENETIC RESOURCES WORK
- EX SITU AND IN SITU PRESERVATION
- Chapter 29 Conserving and Monitoring Biotic Diversity Some African Examples
- BIOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING
- PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS AND ENDEMISM
- APPROACHES TO THE CONSERVATION OF BIOTIC DIVERSITY IN AFRICA
- BIOTIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
- ASSESSING THE ADEQUACY OF CURRENT PROTECTED AREA COVER
- IDENTIFYING GAPS IN THE NETWORK
- MONITORING THE SYSTEM
- LESSONS LEARNED
- PART 7 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: HOW CAN THEY HELP
- Chapter 30 Can Technology Aid Species Preservation?
- FOUR OBSTACLES TO SPECIES SURVIVAL
- PROBLEM AND APPLICATION
- LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- NUMBERS VERSUS TECHNOLOGY
- TECHNOLOGY IS EXPENSIVE
- BUYING TIME
- Chapter 31 Conservation of Biological Diversity in Botanical Gardens
- METHODS OF EX SITU CONSERVATION
- THE GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF EX SITU CONSERVATION.
- SOME PRACTICAL ISSUES
- WHAT THEN IS THE SPECIFIC ROLE FOR BOTANICAL GARDENS IN CONSERVATION?
- Chapter 32 Using Science and Technology to Reestablish Species Lost in Nature
- REINTRODUCTIONS
- CAPTIVE BREEDING IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 33 Intensive Technology in the Care of Ex Situ Populations of Vanishing Species
- SCOPE OF EX SITU MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
- NUTRITION
- ANIMAL RESTRAINT AND CAPTURE
- BIOMEDICAL RESOURCES
- IDENTIFICATION AND DATA COLLECTION
- REPRODUCTION
- POPULATION BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND ISIS
- IN SITU AND EX SITU METHODS
- ETHICS AND VALUE SYSTEMS
- Chapter 34 Cryobiology, Embryo Transfer, and Artificial Insemination in Ex Situ Animal Conservation Programs
- EMBRYO TRANSFER
- CRYOPRESERVATION OF EMBRYOS
- ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
- SEMEN CRYOPRESERVATION
- PART 8 RESTORATION ECOLOGY: CAN WE RECOVER LOST GROUND?
- Chapter 35 Ecological Restoration Reflections on a Half-Century of Experience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison…
- PIONEERING RESTORATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ARBORETUM
- TECHNICAL, ECOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL, ECONOMIC FACTORS
- Chapter 36 Restoring Diversity in Salt Marshes Can We Do It?
- RESTORATION PLANS
- Projects that Show Losses in Wetland Area
- Projects That Replace Functional Wetland Habitat with Modified Wetland Habitat
- CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING RESTORATION PLANNING
- IMPLEMENTATION OF RESTORATION PROJECTS
- Assessing Success
- Summary of Trials
- Conclusions Concerning Implementation
- PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
- Chapter 37 Restoration of Degraded Lands in the Amazon Basin
- NATURAL DISTURBANCES IN AMAZONIA
- DISTURBANCE BY HUMANS IN AMAZONIA.
- A ROLE FOR RESTORATION ECOLOGY.
- Notes:
- "The source of the book is the National Forum on BioDiversity, held in Washington, D.C., on September 21-24, 1986, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences and Smithsonian Institution"--P. v.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610221516
- 9781280221514
- 1280221518
- 9780309567367
- 030956736X
- 9780585047225
- 0585047227
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