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ReferencesBOOKS Baskin, Yvonne THE WORK OF NATURE: HOW THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE SUSTAINS US Island Press, 1998. Davidson, Osha Gray THE ENCHANTED BRAID: COMING TO TERMS WITH NATURE ON THE CORAL REEF John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Eldredge, Niles LIFE IN THE BALANCE: HUMANITY AND THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS Princeton, 1998. Raven, Peter H. and Tania Williams, editors NATURE AND HUMAN SOCIETY: THE QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2000. Reaka-Kudla, Marjorie L.; and others, editors BIODIVERSITY II Joseph Henry Press, 1997. Stein, Bruce A.; and others, editors PRECIOUS HERITAGE: THE STATUS OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES Oxford University Press, 2000 Thorne-Miller, Boyce THE LIVING OCEAN: UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING MARINE BIODIVERSITY Island Press, 1999. Wilson, Edward O. THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE W.W. Norton, 1999. ARTICLES Chapin III, F. Stuart; and others "Consequences of Changing Biodiversity" (Nature, Vol. 405, No. 6783, May 11, 2000, pp. 234-242) Cincotta, Richard P.; and Engelman, Robert "Biodiversity and Population Growth" (Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 2000, pp. 80-81) Norris, Scott "A Year for Biodiversity: International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY 2001-2002)" (BioScience, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2000, pp. 103-107) Tuxill, John "The Biodiversity That People Made--And Are Now Losing" (World Watch, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 24-35) Wilson, Edward O. "A Global Biodiversity Map" (Science, Vol. 289, No. 5488, September 29, 2000, p. 2279) Wilson, Edward O. "Vanishing Before Our Eyes" (Time, Vol. 155, No. 17, Spring 2000, pp. 28-34) Wolfensohn, James D.; Seligmann, Peter A.; and El-Ashry, Mohamed T. "Winning the War on Biodiversity Conservation" (New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 38-39) WEB SITES American Museum of Natural History: Biodiversity http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/ Association for Biodiversity Information http://www.abi.org Biodiversity Information Network http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/ Conservation International http://www.conservation.org Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org Council on Environmental Quality http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ Environmental Protection Agency, Ecosystems http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/ecoterreforests.html Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Oceans http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Wetlands http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands Forest Conservation Portal http://www.forests.org International Coral Reef Initiative http://www.icriforum.org Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/caff/index.htm The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands http://www.ramsar.org U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arctic National Wildlife Refuge http://www.r7.fws.gov/nwr/arctic/arctic.html The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity http://www.conbio.rice.edu/vl/ World Resources Institute: Biological Resources http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/ CD ROM Conserving Earthís Biodiversity. Edward O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman. Island Press. CONTENTS HOME BIODIVERSITY Benefits of Biodiversity Traditional crop varieties and food security Plant-based medicines The death of global biodiversity How to save biodiversity ECOSYSTEMS Coral reefs Forests Endangered Forests [page 2] Biodiversity of Wetlands Arctic Biodiversity REFERENCES References SEARCH |
