| Titre : |
Santa rosalia, the turning of the century and a new age of exploration |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Auteur ; Don E. Wilson, Auteur ; Edward O. Wilson, Auteur |
| Année de publication : |
1996 |
| Importance : |
p 507-524 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE LA VIE
|
| Mots-clés : |
SANTA ROSALIA HISTOIRE NATURELLE BIODIVERSITE |
| Résumé : |
As a number of scientists had targeted the origin and maintenance of diversity in biological communities as a central issue in biology, scientific community began to be aware of declining biodiversity-and the tragically coincidental decline in numbers of scientists trained to analyze the diversity of the world's organisms-only within the last 10 years. One of the primary means by which these dual crises became known to the scientific community and the public was through the publication by the National Academy Press.
Since that time, national and international interest in the issue of biodiversity has risen to an all-time high. The public has become informed about the natural diversity of communities such as rain forests, prairies, wetlands and coral reefs and alarmed at the rate at which these natural wonders are being lost. Policy-makers have advocated or argued about our responsability for saving endangered species and the costs and benefits of preserving them. Major strides have been made by the scientific community in understanding the processes that regulate biodiversity, predicting how much will be lost if habitats are degraded and developing new technologies for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. There has been a pervasive realization, however, that the number of trained specialists is low and the job of understanding the world's biodiversity is vast and vigorous discussions have raged about how to approach the all-important task of documenting and conserving the world's biodiversity. Thus, some might think that the speed of destruction is too fast and that even to survey the world's resources in biodiversity is a task too overwhelming and expensive to undertake. The fact remains that far-reaching changes in the infrastructure of our knowledge have occured since the seminal publication of Biodiversity.
The goal of the present volume is to summarize important conceptual and technological developments that have occurred in the field of biodiversity since the publication of the original volume, with a view to wether or not and how we can cost-effectively assess, understand and manage our total global biodiversity. It is important to present this information in a format that is accessible to scientists, students, policy-makers and the public for only with their collective concurrence and support wiil the effort succeed. |
| Numéro du document : |
A 10422/BIO 47 |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
BIOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
BIOLOGIE GENERALE |
Santa rosalia, the turning of the century and a new age of exploration [texte imprimé] / Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Auteur ; Don E. Wilson, Auteur ; Edward O. Wilson, Auteur . - 1996 . - p 507-524. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE LA VIE
|
| Mots-clés : |
SANTA ROSALIA HISTOIRE NATURELLE BIODIVERSITE |
| Résumé : |
As a number of scientists had targeted the origin and maintenance of diversity in biological communities as a central issue in biology, scientific community began to be aware of declining biodiversity-and the tragically coincidental decline in numbers of scientists trained to analyze the diversity of the world's organisms-only within the last 10 years. One of the primary means by which these dual crises became known to the scientific community and the public was through the publication by the National Academy Press.
Since that time, national and international interest in the issue of biodiversity has risen to an all-time high. The public has become informed about the natural diversity of communities such as rain forests, prairies, wetlands and coral reefs and alarmed at the rate at which these natural wonders are being lost. Policy-makers have advocated or argued about our responsability for saving endangered species and the costs and benefits of preserving them. Major strides have been made by the scientific community in understanding the processes that regulate biodiversity, predicting how much will be lost if habitats are degraded and developing new technologies for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. There has been a pervasive realization, however, that the number of trained specialists is low and the job of understanding the world's biodiversity is vast and vigorous discussions have raged about how to approach the all-important task of documenting and conserving the world's biodiversity. Thus, some might think that the speed of destruction is too fast and that even to survey the world's resources in biodiversity is a task too overwhelming and expensive to undertake. The fact remains that far-reaching changes in the infrastructure of our knowledge have occured since the seminal publication of Biodiversity.
The goal of the present volume is to summarize important conceptual and technological developments that have occurred in the field of biodiversity since the publication of the original volume, with a view to wether or not and how we can cost-effectively assess, understand and manage our total global biodiversity. It is important to present this information in a format that is accessible to scientists, students, policy-makers and the public for only with their collective concurrence and support wiil the effort succeed. |
| Numéro du document : |
A 10422/BIO 47 |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
BIOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
BIOLOGIE GENERALE |
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