Table of Contents: “…Challenges to the preservation of biodiversity. -- Human dependence in biological diversity. -- Diversity at risk: tropical forests. -- Diversity at risk: the global perspective. -- The value of biodiversity. -- How is biodiversity monitored and protection. -- Science and technology: how can they help? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Global Biodiversity Conservation: The Critical Role of Hotspots -- Tough Choices – Approaches towards the Setting of Global Conservation Priorities -- Quantifying Biodiversity – Does It Matter What We Measure?…”
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Subjects: “…Biodiversity Encyclopedias.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Christian ecological ethics and biodiversity -- Defining biodiversity -- The variety of life -- Why biodiversity matters -- Valuing life and ecosystems -- The sacramental value of the variety of life -- The levels of biodiversity -- Scaling conservation -- Multiscalar Christian ecological ethics -- Political and morally formative conservation -- Regulating biodiversity : the endangered species act and political conservation -- Christian care for biodiversity : moral formation as conservation -- Social justice and the conservation of biodiversity -- Biological and cultural diversity -- Diversities and justice -- Conclusion: the work of conserving biodiversity.…”

Subjects: “…Biodiversity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005569…”

Table of Contents: “…Gauld -- Intraspecific biodiversity in Hymenoptera : implications for conservation and biological control / T.R. …”

Subjects: “…Marine biodiversity United States.…”

Table of Contents: “…Meaning and value of biodiversity -- Patterns of the biosphere: how much biodiversity is there? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Biodiversity dynamics: niche preemption and saturation in diversity equilibria / Michael L. …”
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Subjects: “…Biodiversity conservation Law and legislation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002657…”

Subjects: “…Biodiversity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005569…”

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Biodiversity and Bioeconomy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- I. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Historical Determinants of Mammal Diversity in Africa: Evolution of Mammalian Body Mass Distribution in Africa and South America During Neogene and Quarternary Times -- Diversity and Abundance of Diurnal Primates and Forest Antelopes in Relation to Habitat Quality: A Case Study from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania -- Small Mammal Diversity and Reproduction Along a Transect in Namibia (Biota S 07) -- Possible Karyological Affinities of Small Mammals from North of the Ethiopian Plateau -- Geographic Variation in the West African Scaly-Tailed Squirrel anomalurus Pelii (Schlegel and Müller, 1845) and Description of a New Subspecies (Rodentia: Anomaluridae) -- Middle Ear Ossicles as a Diagnostic Trait in African Mole-Rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) -- Community Analysis of Muridae (Mammalia, Rodentia) Diversity in Guinea: A Special Emphasis on Mastomys Species and Lassa Fever Distributions -- Effects of Different Land Use on the Parasite Burden and MHC Constitution Of two Rodent Species (Gerbillurus Paeba, Rhabdomys Pumilio) in the Southern Kalahari Desert -- An Assessment of the Systematics of the Genus Desmomys Thomas, 1910 (Rodentia: Muridae) Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequences -- Integrative Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Systematics of the Genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genetta): A New Classification of the Most Speciose Carnivoran Genus in Africa -- How to Digitize Large Insect Collections — Preliminary Results of the DIG Project -- Monitoring Landcover Changes of the Niger Inland Delta Ecosystem (Mali) by Means of Envisat-Meris Data -- Is Geodiversity Correlated to Biodiversity? A Case Study of the Relationship Between Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Resources and Tree Diversity in a Western Kenyan Rainforest -- Decline of Woody Species in the Sahel -- Diversity Over Time and Space in Enset Landraces (Ensete Ventricosum) in Ethiopia.…”
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Table of Contents: “…What is biodiversity? -- Habitat fragmentation and loss -- The mathematics of extinction -- When is a species endangered? …”