World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st CenturyThis broad ranging and detailed reference—a redesigned and updated edition of Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's Living Resources, originally published in 1992—includes revised and new data and graphics, additional photographs, and added material on food issues and biodiversity, as well as a new chapter on protected areas and other conservation issues. Opening with an outline of some fundamental aspects of material cycles and energy flow in the biosphere, the book goes on to discuss the expansion of life through geological time and the pattern of its distribution over the surface of the Earth, and trends in the condition of the main ecosystem types and their integral species. "An indispensable resource on information about Earth's biological variety and why its conservation is crucially important for human survival and well being. This volume should be in the hands of biologists, policymakers, educators, and the general public concerned with our global environment."—Joel Cracraft, Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History ISBN: 0520236688 Authors: Brian Groombridge & Martin D. Jenkins. Pages/Length: 340 Publisher: California Publication Date: 2002 Format: hardback, color dustjacket Primary Subject: nature |