Fragile web
Subtitle: what next for nature?
By: edited by Jonathan Silvertown ; authors Joanna Freeland [and others]
Publisher: Natural History Museum in association with the Open University; Natural History Museum UK
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780565092610
Subjects: Biodiversity; Biodiversity conservation; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental quality; Environmental protection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biodiversity and us; title: Life's long and chequered career; title: Evolution's atlas; title: What is a species?; title: Genes, genes, genes; title: The web of nature; title: What has biodiversity ever done for us?; title: Valued landscapes; title: Nature in the city; title: Life in freshwater; title: Going, going, gone : the sixth extinction; title: The exhaustible sea; title: Climate change; title: Invasion planet Earth; title: What next for nature?