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| Author | : Edward O. Wilson |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780393319408 |
This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed a great deal to environmental ethics by calling for the preservation of whole ecosystems rather than individual species, his environmentalism appears too anthropocentric: "We should judge every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity." And: "Signals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit." This reprint of the 1992 Belknap Press publication contains a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Cecie Starr |
| Publisher | : Brooks/Cole Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2008-10-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780495558071 |
Labeling exercises, self-quizzes, review questions, and critical thinking exercises help students with retention and better test results.
| Author | : Nicola Davies |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2017-11-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0763694835 |
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of world would it be if it went from having many types of living things to having just one?--
| Author | : Lynn Margulis |
| Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780763708627 |
This sophisticated coloring book is a beautifully detailed illustration of the world's living diversity. It is written for science students, teachers, and anyone else who is curious about the extraordinary variety of living things that inhabit this planet. It opens with an introduction to the classification systems, distinctions between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, an introduction to life cycles, Earth history, and an explanation of how to best use this coloring book. The next section is organized by communities in which the organisms live. The final section details the variety of major groupings - phyla - within each kingdom and shows how the organisms in each are distinguished from one other. This coloring book gives a visual understanding of the enormous diversity of life on this planet and will be an enlightening and educational resource for students from a variety of backgrounds.
| Author | : Anne E. Magurran |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1118687922 |
This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics. Helps the reader quantify and interpret patterns of ecological diversity, focusing on the measurement and estimation of species richness and abundance. Explores the concept of ecological diversity, bringing new perspectives to a field beset by contradictory views and advice. Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity among taxa Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues Includes worked examples of key methods in helping people to understand the techniques and use available computer packages more effectively
| Author | : R. S. K. Barnes |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2009-07-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1444313371 |
Such is the pressure on teaching time in schools and universities that students are taught less and less of the diversity that is life on this planet. Most students, and indeed most professional biologists that these students become, know far more of cell function than of biodiversity. This text is a profusely illustrated, quick-reference guide to all types of living organisms, from the single-celled prokaryotes and eurkaryotes to the multicellular fungi, plants and animals. All surviving phyla and their component classes are characterised and described, as are their lifestyles, ecology, relationships, and within-group diversity (with orders displayed in list form). Overall, the book's aim is to provide biologists and others with a clear, concise picture of the nature of all groups of organisms with which they may be unfamiliar.
| Author | : Akihiko Mougi |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2020-10-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9811579539 |
This book presents new theoretical perspectives on ecological community dynamics and in so doing casts fresh light on the enduring complexity–stability debate. Real ecological communities do not simply comprise diverse species and interactions, which respectively represented the nodes and links of the classic network theory. Rather, they are characterized by different types of complexity, and this book explains how this diversity of complexity is key to understanding the dynamics of ecological communities. It is shown how various properties in natural communities, such as life history, adaptation, density dependence, sex, interaction types, space, functional traits, and microbial processes, can dramatically increase the complexity in ecological communities. Furthermore, innovative methods are introduced that may be applied to cast light on very complex communities. With each chapter presenting the latest advances and approaches, the book sets the direction for future research on ecological community dynamics. It will be a “must read” for researchers and students in the field of ecology.
| Author | : Michael L. Rosenzweig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 1995-05-04 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0521496187 |
| Author | : Luisa Maffi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2012-09-10 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1136544259 |
The field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to the development of indicators as tools to measure, assess, and monitor the state and trends of biocultural diversity, to on-the-ground implementation in field projects. This book is a unique compendium and analysis of projects from all around the world that take an integrated biocultural approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity. The 45 projects reviewed exemplify a new focus in conservation: this is based on the emerging realization that protecting and restoring biodiversity and maintaining and revitalizing cultural diversity and cultural vitality are intimately, indeed inextricably, interrelated. Published with Terralingua and IUCN
| Author | : Laura Perdew |
| Publisher | : Nomad Press (VT) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Biodiversity |
| ISBN | : 9781619307483 |
It's a big world out there, and it's populated with millions of different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms! Available in paperback, Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Science Activities for Kids introduces middle school readers to the evolution of life on Earth, beginning with the first single-celled organisms that emerged 3.8 billion years ago to the complex multi-celled organisms that exist today and make up the tree of life. Science-minded, hands-on experiments make this a book a fully immersive learning experience!
