Biodiversity ii: understanding and protecting our biological resources

Auteur :
A Joseph Henry Press book
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309055840
Date de publication :
16 oct. 1996
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Explores strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity. This volume describes an understanding of how megacenters of diversity are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared.