The biodiversity crisis: losing what counts

Biodiversity: wildlife in trouble / Edward O. Wilson Profile: Abebe Getahun What's this biodiversity and what's it done for us today? / Norman Myers Case study: the Audubon guide to seafood Deforestation in the tropics / Robert C. Repetto Biodiversity and human health / Francesca T. Grifo Profile: Kevin Browngoehl Biodiversity: what it is and why we need it / Paul R. Ehrlich, Simon A. Levin Hot spots / David Ehrenfeld Case study: the Green Guerillas, New York City What have we lost, what are we losing? / Peter H. Raven Profile: Amy Vedder Chemical prospecting: the new natural history / Thomas Eisner Profile: Dolores R. Santoliquido Evolution, extinction, and humanity's place in nature / Niles Eldredge Case study: St. Lucia parrot recovery Profile: Clare Flemming The 40,000-year plague: humans, hyperdisease, and first-contact extinctions / Ross D.E. MacPhee, Preston A. Marx Prehistoric extinctions and ecological changes on Oceanic Islands / Helen F. James Case study: brown-eyed, milk-giving... and extinct: losing mammals since A.D. 1500 Global warming, loss of habitat, and pollution: introduction to "Thompson's ice corps," "nest gains, nest losses," and "hormonal sabotage" / Kefyn M. Catley Thompson's ice corps / Mark Bowen Nest gains, nest losses / Scott K. Robinson Case study: Lake Victoria Hormonal sabotage / Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers Case study: reefs in crisis The new geologic force: man / Fairfield Osborn Profile: Jane Goodall Case study: Humpback Whale Conservation Genetics Project, Madagascar Conservation biology and wildlife management in America: a historical perspective / Curt Meine Profile: Jaime A. Pinkham

Managing the biosphere: the essential role of systematic biology / Joel Cracraft

Case study: Wilderness Preservation Act, U.S.A.

How to grow a wildland: the gardenification of nature / Daniel H. Janzen

Case study: the Belize Ethnobotany Reserve project

Profile: Penelope Bodry-Sanders

The economic value of earth's resources / Graciela Chichilnisky

Profile: Michael Balick

Case study: Jaguars

Strategies and solutions: mapping the biodiversity / Prashant M. Hedao

Community-based approaches for combining conservation and development / Nick Salafsky

Case study: restoration of the Elwha River by dam removal, Washington

No free lunch in the rain forest / Charles M. Peters.