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Front Matter i-xii
Introduction 1-8
Part 1 Defining Biodiversity 9-10
Barriers to Perception: From a World of Interconnection to Fragmentation 11-21
The Creation of Biodiversity 22-29
The Dimensions of Life on Earth 30-45
The Sixth Extinction: How Large, Where, and When? 46-62
The Meaning of Biodiversity Loss 63-70
The Loss of Population Diversity and Why It Matters 71-83
Keeping a Finger on the Pulse of Marine Biodiversity: How Healthy Is It? 84-103
Countryside Biogeography and the Provision of Ecosystem Services 104-114
Part 2 Less Well-Known Individual Forms of Life 115-116
Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere 117-129
Biodiversity, Classification, and Numbers of Species of Protists 130-155
Estimating the Extent of Fungal Diversity in the Tropics 156-175
Nematodes: Pervading the Earth and Linking All Life 176-191
Global Diversity of Mites 192-203
Biodiversity of Terrestrial Invertebrates in Tropical Africa: Assessing the Needs and Plan of Action 204-212
Global Diversity of Insects: The Problems of Estimating Numbers 213-222
Part 3 The Role of the Group in Biodiversity 223-224
The World Beneath Our Feet: Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 225-241
Natural Investment in Diversity: The Role of Biological Communities in Soil 242-252
Part 4 Means to Measure Biodiversity 253-254
Conservation Biology and the Preservation of Biodiversity: An Assessment 255-263
Conservation Genetics: Applying Molecular Methods to Maximize the Conservation of Taxonomic and Genetic Diversity 264-275
Application of Geospatial Information for Identifying Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation 276-280
Hawaii Biological Survey: Museum Resources in Support of Conservation 281-290
Building the Next-Generation Biological-Information Infrastructure 291-300
Part 5 Threats to Sustainability 301-302
Nature Displaced: Human Population Trends and Projections and Their Meanings 303-314
Population Growth, Sustainable Development, and the Environment 315-324
Nonindigenous Species - A Global Threat to Biodiversity and Stability 325-334
Part 6 Infrastructure for Sustaining Biodiversity - Science 335-336
Science and the Public Trust in a Full World: Function and Dysfunction in Science and the Biosphere 337-346
The Response of the International Scientific Community to the Challenge of Biodiversity 347-357
The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 358-373
Charting the Biosphere: Building Global Capacity for Systematics Science 374-386
Science and Technology in the Convention on Biological Diversity 387-397
Ecology and the Knowledge Revolution 398-410
Part 7 Infrastructure for Sustaining Biodiversity - Society 411-412
Biodiversity: A World Bank Perspective 413-419
Creating Cultural Diversity: Tropical Forests Transformed 420-434
Endangered Plants, Vanishing Cultures: Ethnobotany and Conservation 435-442
Religion and Sustainability 443-454
Reaching the Public: The Challenge of Communicating Biodiversity 455-461
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC): A New Multi-Institutional Partnership to Prepare the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders 462-470
Natural Capitalism 471-480
Part 8 Infrastructure for Sustaining Biodiversity - Policy 481-482
Liking Science and Policy: A Research Agenda for Colombian Biodiversity 483-492
Sustainability and the Law: An Assessment of the Endangered Species Act 493-499
Government Policy and Sustainability of Biodiversity in Costa Rica 500-505
National Security, National Interest, and Sustainability 506-513
Biodiversity and Organizing for Sustainability in the United States Government 514-518
Part 9 Examples of Sustainability 519-520
How to Grow a Wildland: The Gardenification of Nature 521-529
Measures to Conserve Biodiversity in Sustainable Forestry: The Ro Cndor Project 530-542
Chemical Prospecting: The New Natural History 543-550
Conservation Medicine: An Emerging Field 551-556
How Countries with Limited Resources are Dealing with Biodiversity Problems 557-572
Biodiversity and Sustainable Human Development: The Costa Rican Agenda 573-585
The National Biodiversity Information System of Mexico 586-595
Community Involvement and Sustainability: The Malpai Borderlands Effort 596-604
Index 605-628

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Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World (1997)

Chapter: Part 4 Means to Measure Biodiversity

PART 4
MEANS TO MEASURE BIODIVERSITY

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Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World (1997)

Chapter: Part 4 Means to Measure Biodiversity

PART 4 MEANS TO MEASURE BIODIVERSITY

PART 4
MEANS TO MEASURE BIODIVERSITY