Fragile web : what next for nature? /
Fragile web : what next for nature? /
edited by Jonathan Silvertown ; authors, Joanna Freeland ... [et al.].
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 192 p. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of biodiversity -- Biodiversity and us -- Life's long and chequered career -- Evolution's atlas -- What is a species? -- Genes, genes, genes -- Ecology: function -- The web of nature -- What has biodiversity ever done for us? -- Valued landscapes -- Nature in the city -- Life in freshwater -- Fate: threats and solutions -- Going, going, gone: the sixth extinction -- The exhaustible sea -- Climate change -- Invasion planet Earth -- What next for nature?.
9780226757810 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226757811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010007697
Biodiversity.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation.
QH541.15.B56 / F73 2010
577
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of biodiversity -- Biodiversity and us -- Life's long and chequered career -- Evolution's atlas -- What is a species? -- Genes, genes, genes -- Ecology: function -- The web of nature -- What has biodiversity ever done for us? -- Valued landscapes -- Nature in the city -- Life in freshwater -- Fate: threats and solutions -- Going, going, gone: the sixth extinction -- The exhaustible sea -- Climate change -- Invasion planet Earth -- What next for nature?.
9780226757810 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226757811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010007697
Biodiversity.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation.
QH541.15.B56 / F73 2010
577