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Tables of Contents for Life on Earth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
ix
Introduction
xiii
What Is Biodiversity?
1
30
Why Is Biodiversity Important?
31
18
Threats to Biodiversity
49
24
Stemming the Tide of the Sixth Global Extinction Event: What We Can Do
73
14
Abyssal Floor
87
1
Adaptation
87
4
Adaptive Radiation
91
2
Agricultural Ecology
93
3
Agriculture and Biodiversity Loss: Genetic Engineering and the Second Agricultural Revolution
96
3
Agriculture and Biodiversity Loss: Industrial Agriculture
99
6
Agriculture: Benefits of Biodiversity to
105
2
Agriculture, Origin of
107
7
Alien Species
114
4
Amphibians
118
8
Angiosperms
126
6
Annelida---The Segmented Worms
132
3
Anthropology
135
5
Archaebacteria
140
2
Archaeology and Sustainable Development
142
2
Arthropods, Marine
144
5
Arthropods, Terrestrial
149
8
Artiodactyls
157
3
Atmosphere
160
2
Atmospheric Cycles
162
1
Atolls
163
1
Avian Malaria and the Extinction of Hawaiian Birds
164
3
Bacteria
167
4
Barrier Islands
171
2
Beaches
173
1
Beauty of Nature, Biophilia and Ethics
174
4
Benthos
178
1
Biogeography
178
3
Birds
181
7
Birds of Guam and the Brown Tree Snake
188
2
Black Rhinoceros
190
1
Bluebuck
191
1
Bony Fishes
192
5
Botany
197
3
Brachiopods
200
2
Bryophytes
202
3
Bryozoa
205
2
Carbon Cycle
207
1
Carnivora
208
4
Carolina Parakeet
212
4
Cetacea (Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises)
216
3
Chiroptera (Bats)
219
1
Chondrichthyes (Sharks, Rays, Chimaeras)
220
4
Chordates (Nonvertebrate)
224
2
Classification, Biological
226
3
Climatology
229
3
Cnidarians (Sea Anemones, Corals, and Jellyfish)
232
2
Coastal Wetlands
234
1
Coevolution
235
2
Coloniality
237
1
Communities
238
5
Conservation Biology
243
3
Conservation, Definition and History
246
3
Continental Shelf
249
1
Continental Slope and Rise
250
1
Convergence and Parallelism
251
1
Coral Reefs
252
7
Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
259
4
Cultural Survival, Revival, and Preservation
263
4
Dams
267
2
Darwin, Charles
269
4
Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Faunas
273
1
Deposition
274
2
Deserts and Semiarid Scrublands
276
2
Draining of Wetlands
278
3
Earthquakes
281
1
Echinoderms
282
5
Ecological Niches
287
4
Ecological Status of Modern Humans
291
1
Ecology
292
7
Economics
299
1
Ecosystems
300
8
Embryology
308
4
Endangered Species
312
3
Erosion
315
3
Estuaries
318
2
Ethics of Conservation
320
4
Ethnology
324
5
Ethnoscience
329
6
Evolution
335
7
Evolutionary Biodiversity
342
5
Evolutionary Genetics
347
5
Extinction, Direct Causes of
352
5
Five Kingdoms of Nature
357
4
Flabellidium Spinosum
361
1
Food Webs and Food Pyramids
362
3
Freshwater
365
2
Fungi
367
6
Galapagos Islands and Darwin's Finches
373
5
Geological Time Scale
378
4
Geology, Geomorphology, and Geography
382
3
Giant, Flightless Island Birds
385
3
Giant Ground Sloth
388
2
Glaciation
390
3
Global Climate Change
393
4
Great Apes
397
2
Gymnosperms
399
6
Habitat Tracking
405
2
Haplochromine Cichlids of Lake Victoria
407
4
Herbivory
411
1
Hole in the Ozone Layer
412
1
Holocene
413
3
Homo Sapiens
416
2
Human Evolution
418
6
Humans and Biodiversity: Examples from the Hoofed Mammals
424
6
Hutton, James
430
2
Hydrologic Cycle
432
1
Ice Caps and Glaciers
433
3
Indigenous Conservation
436
3
Industrial Revolution/Industrialization
439
4
Interior Wetlands
443
5
International Trade and Biodiversity
448
1
Intertidal Zone
449
2
Lagomorpha
451
2
Lagoons
453
1
Lakes
454
2
Land Use
456
3
Late Devonian Extinction
459
3
Late Ordovician Extinction
462
3
Late Triassic Extinction
465
2
Lemurs and Other Lower Primates
467
2
Lichens
469
2
Linguistic Diversity
471
4
Linnaean Hierarchy
475
4
Lyell, Charles
479
4
Mammalia
483
3
Mass Extinction
486
2
Medicine, The Benefits of Biodiversity to
488
5
Meteorology
493
3
Microbiology
496
2
Mining
498
2
Molecular Biology and Biodiversity
500
2
Mollusca
502
5
Monkeys
507
4
Mountains
511
3
Museums and Biodiversity
514
5
Natural Selection
519
3
Nitrogen Cycle
522
1
Nurseries
523
1
Nutrient/Energy Cycling
524
3
Oceanic Trenches
527
1
Oceans
528
3
Order Uranotheria
531
4
Organizations in Biodiversity, The Role of
535
8
Oxygen, History of Presence in the Atmosphere
543
2
Paleontology
545
4
Palestinian Painted Frog
549
2
Perissodactyls
551
2
Permo-Triassic Extinction
553
3
Phylogeny
556
2
Physical Anthropology
558
3
Plankton
561
8
Plate Tectonics
569
2
Pleistocene Epoch
571
3
Pollination
574
3
Pollution
577
5
Population Growth, Human
582
4
Population, Human, Curbs to Growth
586
5
Positive Interactions
591
3
Preservation of Habitats
594
7
Preservation of Species
601
6
Primates
607
3
Protoctists
610
7
Pteridophytes
617
3
Punctuated Equilibria
620
5
Reptiles
625
11
Rivers and Streams
636
4
Rodents
640
5
Sandalwood Tree
645
1
Seamounts
646
2
Sixth Extinction
648
2
Smallpox
650
2
Snowball Earth
652
2
Soil
654
3
Speciation
657
2
Species
659
5
Sponges
664
3
Subsistence
667
4
Succession and Successionlike Processes
671
6
Sustainable Development
677
4
Systematics
681
8
Thylacine
689
2
Tides
691
1
Topsoil Formation
692
1
Topsoil, Loss of
693
2
Tourism, Ecotourism, and Biodiversity
695
6
Tropical Rain Forests
701
6
Urbanization
707
4
Valuing Biodiversity
711
3
Viruses
714
3
Volcanoes
717
2
Wallace, Alfred Russel
719
4
Xenarthrans (Edentates)
723
4
Zoology
727
2
Selected Bibliography
729
20
Index
749
44
About the Editor
793