Urban Biodiversity and Design (Conservation Science and Practice) 2010

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical role in global biodiversity. This is the first book to provide an overview of international developments in urban biodiversity and sustainable design. It brings together the views, experiences and expertise of leading scientists and designers from the industrialised and pre-industrialised countries from around the world. The contributors explore the biological, cultural and social values of urban biodiversity, including methods for assessing and evaluating urban biodiversity, social and educational issues

Biodiversity: An Introduction, Second Edition

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it.
It is a timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific way.

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and EvolutionLife on Earth is intended to introduce "younger generations" to biological diversity, "the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to biogeographic regions, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it." The encyclopedia's activist perspective and conversational style will appeal to students, especially those writing position papers.Eldredge is curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and a number of the 60 contributors are AMNH scientists.

 

Biodiversity: Conserving Endangered Species

Students with a basic understanding of the environment and concern for its future know the importance of preserving biological diversity. Biodiversity is the variety of living things on Earth or in a specific area. This definition seems simple enough to understand, yet the concept of biodiversity has deeper meanings that challenge even trained environmental scientists.

Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Biodiversity

 

Few subjects can be boring in Bill Nye's capable hands, and biodiversity gets the Nye treatment in this video. His programs are a volatile mix of entertaining hijinks and serious science, and he adds a good dose of music to liven up the activities. In this program, he discusses the importance of biodiversity and ecosystems, and their influence on humans. He demonstrates the results when nature's balance is upset...