%0 Book %E Wilson, E.O. %E University, Harvard %T Biodiversity %D 1988 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/989/biodiversity %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/989/biodiversity %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Biology and Life Sciences %P 538 %R doi:10.17226/989 %X 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.