Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's Living Resources : a Report

World Conservation Monitoring Centre, British Museum (Natural History), International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Chapman & Hall, 1992 - Nature - 585 pages

This book is a comprehensive compendium of conservation information. It aims to provide the first systematic report on the status, distribution, management and utilization of the planet's biological wealth. With extensive use of tables, graphics and maps, it presents standardized and comparable data for 205 countries of the world. The report is divided into three sections: Part I documents diversity at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels, including micro-organisms, species extinctions and rates of habitat loss; Part II covers the benefits and values of biodiversity, focusing on wildlife utilization, domestication and the economic valuation of diversity; Part III reviews the conservation and management of biodiversity at the national and international conventions and institutional and financial support.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's Living Resources : a Report; GEMS - Global Environment Monitoring System
• Authors: World Conservation Monitoring Centre, British Museum (Natural History), International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• Editor: Brian Groombridge
• Compiled by: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall, 1992
• ISBN: 0412472406, 9780412472404
• Length: 585 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Wildlife; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Reference / General; Science / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology