Biodiversity

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5404962

Wilson, E O; Peter, F M

In tropical forests, on coral reefs, and in other threatened habitats, countless plant, animal, and microbial species face possible extinction - their names unknown, their numbers uncounted, their value unreckoned. Although popular attention has focused on the plight of more visible and widely known species like the whooping crane or the African elephant, most-experts agree that the loss of less-obvious organisms could be much more devastating. This is the subject of the volume. It calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human-population pressure and the demands of economic development. The book explores biodiversity from a wide variety of viewpoints.

• Research Organization: National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA). Commission on Life Sciences
• OSTI ID: 5404962
• Report Number(s): PB-89-204465/XAB; ISBN: 0-309-03739-5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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550400* -- Genetics
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ANIMALS
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
BIOSPHERE
DISTRIBUTION
ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
ECOLOGY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ENDANGERED SPECIES
ENVIRONMENT
MEETINGS
PLANTS
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
SPECIES DIVERSITY