The Diversity of Life
The Diversity of Life

Author: Edward O. Wilson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780393319408

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This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed a great deal to environmental ethics by calling for the preservation of whole ecosystems rather than individual species, his environmentalism appears too anthropocentric: "We should judge every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity." And: "Signals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit." This reprint of the 1992 Belknap Press publication contains a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biology
Biology

Author: Cecie Starr

Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company

Published: 2008-10-03

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780495558071

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Labeling exercises, self-quizzes, review questions, and critical thinking exercises help students with retention and better test results.

Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth

Author: Nicola Davies

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0763694835

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The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of world would it be if it went from having many types of living things to having just one?--

Diversity of Life
Diversity of Life

Author: Lynn Margulis

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780763708627

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This sophisticated coloring book is a beautifully detailed illustration of the world's living diversity. It is written for science students, teachers, and anyone else who is curious about the extraordinary variety of living things that inhabit this planet. It opens with an introduction to the classification systems, distinctions between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, an introduction to life cycles, Earth history, and an explanation of how to best use this coloring book. The next section is organized by communities in which the organisms live. The final section details the variety of major groupings - phyla - within each kingdom and shows how the organisms in each are distinguished from one other. This coloring book gives a visual understanding of the enormous diversity of life on this planet and will be an enlightening and educational resource for students from a variety of backgrounds.

Measuring Biological Diversity
Measuring Biological Diversity

Author: Anne E. Magurran

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1118687922

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This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics. Helps the reader quantify and interpret patterns of ecological diversity, focusing on the measurement and estimation of species richness and abundance. Explores the concept of ecological diversity, bringing new perspectives to a field beset by contradictory views and advice. Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity among taxa Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues Includes worked examples of key methods in helping people to understand the techniques and use available computer packages more effectively

The Diversity of Living Organisms
The Diversity of Living Organisms

Author: R. S. K. Barnes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-07-17

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1444313371

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Such is the pressure on teaching time in schools and universities that students are taught less and less of the diversity that is life on this planet. Most students, and indeed most professional biologists that these students become, know far more of cell function than of biodiversity. This text is a profusely illustrated, quick-reference guide to all types of living organisms, from the single-celled prokaryotes and eurkaryotes to the multicellular fungi, plants and animals. All surviving phyla and their component classes are characterised and described, as are their lifestyles, ecology, relationships, and within-group diversity (with orders displayed in list form). Overall, the book's aim is to provide biologists and others with a clear, concise picture of the nature of all groups of organisms with which they may be unfamiliar.

Biodiversity
Biodiversity

Author: Laura Perdew

Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781619307483

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It's a big world out there, and it's populated with millions of different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms! Available in paperback, Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Science Activities for Kids introduces middle school readers to the evolution of life on Earth, beginning with the first single-celled organisms that emerged 3.8 billion years ago to the complex multi-celled organisms that exist today and make up the tree of life. Science-minded, hands-on experiments make this a book a fully immersive learning experience!

Diversity of Functional Traits and Interactions
Diversity of Functional Traits and Interactions

Author: Akihiko Mougi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9811579539

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This book presents new theoretical perspectives on ecological community dynamics and in so doing casts fresh light on the enduring complexity–stability debate. Real ecological communities do not simply comprise diverse species and interactions, which respectively represented the nodes and links of the classic network theory. Rather, they are characterized by different types of complexity, and this book explains how this diversity of complexity is key to understanding the dynamics of ecological communities. It is shown how various properties in natural communities, such as life history, adaptation, density dependence, sex, interaction types, space, functional traits, and microbial processes, can dramatically increase the complexity in ecological communities. Furthermore, innovative methods are introduced that may be applied to cast light on very complex communities. With each chapter presenting the latest advances and approaches, the book sets the direction for future research on ecological community dynamics. It will be a “must read” for researchers and students in the field of ecology.

Lizards
Lizards

Author: Eric R. Pianka

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-09-24

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780520234017

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This book provides an overview of the diversity of lizards and their major adaptive features. The authors discuss the latest research findings and provide new hypotheses about lizard diversity.