Biodiversity : Przewalski's horse, Edna's trillium, the giant squid, and over 1.5 million other species
"Biodiversity is a collection of essays on taxonomy, palaeobiology, evolution, biogeography, population biology, ecology (micro- and macro- ), conservation biology, and other sub-disciplines that make up the study of the diversity of life on earth. Empirical rather than theoretical, these essays draw strongly upon the author's observations and travels during thirty years of fieldwork as a naturalist in North America and Asia. Biodiversity may be used as an introductory text in undergraduate biodiversity or conservation biology courses or as supplementary reading in more advanced courses."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
University Press of America, Lanham, Md., ©2005
x, 162 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780761830894, 0761830898
60524147
Introduction
Taxonomy: animal, mineral, or vegetable? Or did King Phillip call out four gallant soldiers?
Biodiversity: an inordinate fondness for beetles: the variety of life on earth
Paleobiology: large, winged creatures, seamonsters, and dinosaurs
Biogeography: polar bears and penguins
Evolution
Population biology: size, age, death, and life history
Microecology: territoriality, sex, and coexistence
Macroecology: the big picture
Conservation biology: abundance challenged
What a piece of work is man?