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Popular interest in protecting the world's biological diversity-including its amazing range of species, its complex biological communities, and the genetic variation within species-has intensified during the last few decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many biological communities, nonconsumptive use value, productive use value, island biogeography model, entire biological communities, population viability analysis, keystone resources, conservation biology, new protected areas, protecting biological diversity, international conservation efforts, conservation biologists, outbreeding depression, biological conservation, situ preservation, effective population size, habitat fragments, invasive species, keystone species, habitat fragmentation, total land surface, forest fragments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, North America, World Bank, United Nations, New York, New Guinea, New Zealand, South Africa, Endangered Species Act, Costa Rica, Island Press, United Kingdom, Biological Conservation, Global Environment Facility, Latin America, Coast Guard, Red Lists, South America, World Wildlife Fund, Cambridge University Press, Central America, Conservation International, Earth Summit, The Nature Conservancy, Democratic Republic of the Congo New!
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Popular interest in protecting the world's biological diversity-including its amazing range of species, its complex biological communities, and the genetic variation within species-has intensified during the last few decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many biological communities, nonconsumptive use value, productive use value, island biogeography model, entire biological communities, population viability analysis, keystone resources, conservation biology, new protected areas, protecting biological diversity, international conservation efforts, conservation biologists, outbreeding depression, biological conservation, situ preservation, effective population size, habitat fragments, invasive species, keystone species, habitat fragmentation, total land surface, forest fragments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, North America, World Bank, United Nations, New York, New Guinea, New Zealand, South Africa, Endangered Species Act, Costa Rica, Island Press, United Kingdom, Biological Conservation, Global Environment Facility, Latin America, Coast Guard, Red Lists, South America, World Wildlife Fund, Cambridge University Press, Central America, Conservation International, Earth Summit, The Nature Conservancy, Democratic Republic of the Congo New!
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- Conservation Biology - For the Coming Decade, Second Edition by Peggy L. Fiedler on 6 pages
- Global Biodiversity Assessment by Vernon H. Heywood on page 60, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Restoring Diversity: Strategies For Reintroduction Of Endangered Plants by Donald A. Falk in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The World Atlas by Hammond Inc on page 60, and Back Matter
- Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach by David Lindenmayer on page 236, and Back Matter
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- Southeastern Asian Biodiversity in Crisis (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series) by Navjot S. Sodhi in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Global Ecology in Human Perspective by Charles H. Southwick in Back Matter
- Conservation Geography by Charles L. Convis Jr. on page 63
- Restoring Diversity: Strategies For Reintroduction Of Endangered Plants by Donald A. Falk in Back Matter
- The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson in Back Matter
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