World atlas of biodiversity: Earth's living resources in the 21st Century.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Quarto, dustwrapper, 340 pp. maps, colour photographs.

WAS $100.00 This book provides a comprehensive and accessible view of key global issues in biodiversity. It outlines some of the broad ecological relationships between humans and the rest of the material world and summarizes information on the health of the planet. Opening with an outline of some fundamental aspects of material cycles and energy flow in the biosphere, the book goes on to discuss the expansion of this diversity through geological time and the pattern of its distribution over the surface of the Earth, and trends in the condition of the main ecosystem types and the species integral to them.