Biodiversity

This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike 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. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Forum on BioDiversity ( 1986, Washington, D.C.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Smithsonian Institution
Other Authors: Wilson, Edward O. (Editor), Peter, Frances M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press 1988, 1988
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Summary:This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike 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. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution, Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions
Item Description:Title from PDF title page
Physical Description:1 PDF file (xiii, 521 pages) illustrations
ISBN:030956736X
9780309567367