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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
   E. O. Wilson
   PART I. THE MEANING AND VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY

2. Biodiversity: What Is It?
   Thomas E. Lovejoy

3. Biodiversity: Why Is It Important?
   Ruth Patrick
   PART II. PATTERNS OF THE BIOSPHERE :
   How Much Biodiversity Is There?

4. Biodiversity at its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles
   Terry L. Erwin

5. Measuring Global Biodiversity and its Decline
   Nigel E. Stork

6. Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity
   Robert K. Robbins and Paul A. Opler

7. The Global Biodiversity of Coral Reefs: A Comparison with Rain Forests
   Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla

8. Common Measures for Studies of Biodiversity: Molecular Phylogeny in the Eukaryotic Microbial World
   Mitchell L. Sogin and Gregory Hinkle

   PART III. THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY :
   What Have We Lost and What Might We Lose?

9. The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues
   Norman Myers

10. Human-Caused Extinction of Birds
    David W. Steadman

11. Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: A Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary
    Scott L. Wing

12. Plant Response to Multiple Environmental Stresses:
    Implications for Climatic Change and Biodiversity
    Irwin N. Forseth

    PART IV. UNDERSTANDING AND USING BIODIVERSITY

13. Names: The Keys to Biodiversity
    F. Christian Thompson

14. Systematics: A Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity
    Ruth Patrick

15. Biodiversity and Systematics: Their Application to Agriculture
    Douglass R. Miller and Amy Y. Rossman

16. Snout Moths: Unraveling the Taxonomic Diversity of a Speciose Group in the Neotropics
    M. Alma Solis

17. Phylogeny and Historical Reconstruction: Host-Parasite Systems as Keystones in Biogeography and Ecology
    Eric P. Hoberg

18. Comparative Behavioral and Biochemical Studies of
    Bowerbirds and the Evolution of Bower-Building
    Gerald Borgia

    PART V. BUILDING TOWARD A SOLUTION :
    New Directions and Applications

19. Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology
    Rita R. Colwell

20. The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity
    Carol J. Bult, Judith A. Blake, Mark D. Adams, Owen White, Granger Sutton, Rebecca Clayton, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Chris Fields, and J. C. Venter

21. Phylogenetic Information Content of Five Nuclear Gene Sequences in Animals: Initial Assessment of Character Sets from Concordance and Divergence Studies
    Timothy P. Friedlander, Jerome C. Regier, and Charles Mitter

22. Gap Analysis for Biodiversity Survey and Maintenance
    J. Michael Scott and Blair Csuti

23. Conservation of Biodiversity in Neotropical Primates
    James M. Dietz

24. Coral Reef Biodiversity Studies: Using Marine Invertebrates to Establish Research and Conservation Priorities, with Examples from the Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea
    James D. Thomas

25. Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity
    William R. Jordan, III

26. Tropical Sustainable Development and Biodiversity
    Patrick Kangas

27. Wildland Biodiversity Management in the Tropics
    Daniel H. Janzen
    PART VI. GETTING THE JOB DONE :
    Institutional, Human and Informational Infrastructure

28. Taxonomic Preparedness: Are We Ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge?
    Quentin D. Wheeler and Joel Cracraft

29. Museums, Research Collections, and the Biodiversity Challenge
    Leslie J. Mehrhoff

30. Resources for Biodiversity in Living Collections and the Challenges of Assessing Microbial Biodiversity
    Richard O. Roblin

31. Integration of Data for Biodiversity Initiatives
    David F. Farr and Amy Y. Rossman

32. Information Management for Biodiversity: A Proposed U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center
    Bruce L. Umminger and Steve Young

    PART VII. CONCLUSIONS

33. Santa Rosalia, the Turning of the Century, and a New Age of Exploration
    Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Don E. Wilson, and E. O. Wilson

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