Biodiversity and Global Change
Published on 1. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-85198-931-0 (ISBN)
Description
The loss of biodiversity of organisms and the effects of global change (including changes in soil, water, vegetation and atmosphere) are two major issues that confront today's biologists and environmental scientists. The objective of this book is to assess biodiversity loss in the context of global change. The book was originally published in 1992 by the International Union of Biological Sciences, and is now reprinted with minor revisions and corrections.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-85198-931-0 (9780851989310)
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Content
1: Introduction 2: The role of the International Council for Scientific Unions in biodiversity and global change research, J W M La Riviere 3: Towards biodiversity in politics, H Alders 4: Biodiversity: an introduction, O T Solbrig 5: Theoretical Considerations 6: Dynamical systems, biological complexity and global change, G Nicolis 7: Biodiversity at a molecular level, J C Mounolou 8: Genetic diversity and its role in the survival of species, W van Delden 9: The geophysical aspects of diversity, J E Lovelock 10: Biodiversity in space and time 11: Past efforts and future prospects towards understanding how many species there are, R M May 12: Biodiversity in microorganisms and its role in ecosystem function, D L Hawksworth 13: Molecular phylogeny of cellular systems: Comparisons of 5S ribosomal RNA sequences, H Hori 14: The role of biodiversity in marine ecosystems, P Lasserre 15: The role of mammal biodiversity in the function of ecosystems, V E Sokolov 16: The role of biodiversity in the function of Savanna ecosystems, E Medina and O Huber 17: Global change, shifting ranges, and biodiversity in plant ecosystems, T van der Hammen 18: Shifting ranges and biodiversity in animal ecosystems, J H Stock 19: Conservation of biodiversity: natural and human aspects 20: Life-history attributes and biodiversity, D L Urban et al. 21: Global change and alien invasions: implications for biodiversity and protected land area management, I A W Macdonald 22: Human aspects of biodiversity: an evolutionary perspective, R K Colwell