Global Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century

摘要: The 1990s seen a remarkable increase in appreciation of the links between state ecosystems and humankind. This publication explores key global issues biodiversity. It examines relationships humankind biodiversity, covering salient features human impacts on environment from earliest hominines onward, uses currently made elements text looks at trends condition main ecosystem types species integral to them outlines some fundamental aspects material cycles energy flow biosphere.