Biodiversity II: understanding and protecting our biological resources

摘要: Biodiversity is defined as all hereditarily based variation at levels of organization from the genes within a single local population or species to composing part community and finally communities themselves that compose living parts multifarous ecosystems world. This volume "Biodiversity II" 10-year report on state art in biodiversity studies with an emphasis concept formation technique. Outlined into four 33 chapters this book explains how scientists study what they have learned about scope life planet urgent questions remain. Overall central message there cost-effective feasible way approaching conservation worlds biological resources. The key solution lies collaboration museums research institutions universities; pooling human financial resources; shared use physical institutional structures are already existent.