Biodiversity
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
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Library of Congress catalog card No. 87-32439. Color illustrations reproduced in black and white
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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