Fragile web
Subtitle: what next for nature?
By: edited by Jonathan Silvertown ; authors, Joanna Freeland ... [et al.].
Contributors: Silvertown, Jonathan W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226757810
Subjects: Biodiversity; Ecology; Environmental degradation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of biodiversity; 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: Ecology: function; 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: Fate: threats and solutions; title: Going, going, gone: the sixth extinction; title: The exhaustible sea; title: Climate change; title: Invasion planet Earth; title: What next for nature?.