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Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources (1997)
Joseph Henry Press (JHP)

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National Research Council. "10 Human-Caused Extinction of Birds." Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997. 1. Print.

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Front Matter (R1-R8)
1 Introduction (1-4)
Part I The Meaning and Value of Biodiversity: 2 Biodiversity: What Is It? (5-14)
3 Biodiversity: Why Is It Important? (15-24)
Part II Patterns of the Biosphere: How Much Biodiversity Is There?: 4 Biodiversity at Its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles (25-40)
5 Measuring Global Biodiversity and Its Decline (41-68)
6 Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity (69-82)
7 The Global Biodiversity of Coral Reefs: A Comparison with Rain Forests (83-108)
8 Common Measures for Studies of Biodiversity: Molecular Phylogeny in the Eukaryotic Microbial World (109-122)
Part III Threats to Biodiversity: What Have We Lost and What Might We Lose?: 9 The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues (123-138)
10 Human-Caused Extinction of Birds (139-162)
11 Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: A Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary (163-186)
12 Plant Response to Multiple Environmental Stresses: Implications for Climatic Change and Biodiversity (187-196)
Part IV Understanding and Using Biodiversity: 13 Names: The Key to Biodiversity (197-212)
14 Systematics: A Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity (213-216)
15 Biodiversity and Systematics: Their Applications to Agriculture (217-230)
16 Snout Moths: Unraveling the Taxonomic Diversity of a Speciose Group in the Neotropics (231-242)
17 Phylogeny and Historical Reconstruction: Host-Parasite Systems as Keystones in Biogeography and Ecology (243-262)
18 Comparative Behavioral and Biochemical Studies of Bowerbirds and the Evolution of Bower-Building (263-276)
Part V Building Toward a Solution: New Directions and Applications: 19 Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology (277-288)
20 The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity (289-300)
21 Initial Assessment of Character Sets from Five Nuclear Gene Sequences in Animals (301-320)
22 Gap Analysis for Biodiversity Survey and Maintenance (321-340)
23 Conservation of Biodiversity in Neotropical Primates (341-356)
24 Using Marine Invertebrates to Establish Research and Conservation Priorities (357-370)
25 Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity (371-388)
26 Tropical Sustainable Development and Biodiversity (389-410)
27 Wildland Biodiversity Management in the Tropics (411-432)
Part VI Getting the Job Done: Institutional, Human, and Informational Infrastructure: 28 Taxonomic Preparedness: Are We Ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge? (433-446)
29 Museums, Research Collections and the Biodiversity Challenge (447-466)
30 Resources for Biodiversity in Living Collections and the Challenges of Assessing Microbial Biodiversity (467-474)
31 Integration of Data for Biodiversity Initiatives (475-490)
32 Information Management for Biodiversity: A Proposed U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center (491-504)
Part VII Conclusions: 33 Santa Rosalia, the Turning of the Century, and a New Age of Exploration (505-524)
Photo Credits (525-526)
Index (527-552)
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