Preserving Biodiversity
This text discusses changes in biodiversity through time, recent and current extinction rates, estimates of present-day extinction rates and conservation of biodiversity.
Topics
- biodiversity
- biodiversity hotspot
- bush meat
- chemical diversity
- chytridiomycosis
- ecosystem diversity
- endemic species
- exotic species
- extinction
- extinction rate
- genetic diversity
- habitat heterogeneity
- secondary plant compound
- species-area relationship
- tragedy of the commons
- white-nose syndrome
- keystone species
- biodiversity loss
- buffer zones
- captive breeding
- dam removal
- degraded ecosystem
- dodo
- E/MSY
- endangered species act
- human behavior
- migratory bird act
- million species-years
- preserves
- R. H. MacArthur
- red list
- species–area relationship
- zoos
- E. O. Wilson
- habitat restoration
- conservation
- equilibrium
- global warming