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We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis. Abundant evidence shows that the current rate of species extinctions is nearing its highest level since the asteroid collision 65 million years ago, and that humans are largely responsible. This book addresses the urgent need to understand and find solutions to this crisis. The book provides a unique approach by focusing on individual species rather than whole plant and animal communities. Emphasizing throughout how conservation biology can benefit from an experimental approach, the book looks at a wide range of terres ... More
Keywords: conservation biology, extinction, experimental biologists, species, giant pandas, tree snails, sea turtles, Stellar sea lions
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520240247 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520240247.001.0001 |
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