TY - BOOK A2 - E.O. Wilson A2 - Harvard University TI - Biodiversity DO - 10.17226/989 PY - 1988 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/989/biodiversity PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Biology and Life Sciences AB - 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. ER -