Descriptive Taxonomy
Author | : Mark F. Watson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780521761079 |
ISBN-13 | : 0521761077 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Download or read book Descriptive Taxonomy written by Mark F. Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK. We are living in an age where biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with the well-documented problems of habitat destruction being compounded by the largely unknown future effects of Climate Change. High quality, accurate and reliable biodiversity data are needed by biologists, conservationists and environmental modellers to understand and assess the ecosystems in which they work, to produce effective conservation strategies, and to feed computer-generated models which predict what environments and habitats we might face"--