Global biodiversity
Subtitle: earth's living resources in the 21st century
By: UNEP, World Conservation Monitoring Centre ; B. Groombridge and M.D. Jenkins.
Contributors: Jenkins, Martin.; Aventis Foundation.; World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Publisher: World Conservation Press; Hoechst Foundation
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Biodiversity; Biodiversity conservation
Other titles: Earth's living resources in the 21st century
Description: This book opens with an outline of some fundamental aspects of material cycles and energy flows within the biosphere. This is followed by discussion of the components of biological diversity, and an account of its expansion through geological time as well as the pattern of its distribution over the surface of the Earth. The second part is concerned with material relationships between humans and biodiversity, covering the salient features of our impacts on the environment from the earliest hominids onwards, and the uses currently made of elements of biodiversity.
Notes: "Aventis Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The biosphere; title: The diversity of organisms; title: Biodiversity through time; title: Humans and biodiversity; title: Patterns and trends in global biodiversity; title: Marine biodiversity; title: Terrestrial biodiversity; title: Inland water biodiversity.