BOOKS

Baskin, Yvonne
THE WORK OF NATURE: HOW THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE SUSTAINS US
Island Press, 1998.

Davidson, Osha Gray
THE ENCHANTED BRAID: COMING TO TERMS WITH NATURE ON THE CORAL REEF
John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Eldredge, Niles
LIFE IN THE BALANCE: HUMANITY AND THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS
Princeton, 1998.

Raven, Peter H. and Tania Williams, editors
NATURE AND HUMAN SOCIETY: THE QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2000.

Reaka-Kudla, Marjorie L.; and others, editors
BIODIVERSITY II
Joseph Henry Press, 1997.

Stein, Bruce A.; and others, editors
PRECIOUS HERITAGE: THE STATUS OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Oxford University Press, 2000

Thorne-Miller, Boyce
THE LIVING OCEAN: UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING MARINE BIODIVERSITY
Island Press, 1999.

Wilson, Edward O.
THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
W.W. Norton, 1999.

ARTICLES

Chapin III, F. Stuart; and others
"Consequences of Changing Biodiversity"
(Nature, Vol. 405, No. 6783, May 11, 2000, pp. 234-242)

Cincotta, Richard P.; and Engelman, Robert
"Biodiversity and Population Growth"
(Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 2000, pp. 80-81)

Norris, Scott
"A Year for Biodiversity: International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY 2001-2002)"
(BioScience, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2000, pp. 103-107)

Tuxill, John
"The Biodiversity That People Made--And Are Now Losing"
(World Watch, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 24-35)

Wilson, Edward O.
"A Global Biodiversity Map"
(Science, Vol. 289, No. 5488, September 29, 2000, p. 2279)

Wilson, Edward O.
"Vanishing Before Our Eyes"
(Time, Vol. 155, No. 17, Spring 2000, pp. 28-34)

Wolfensohn, James D.; Seligmann, Peter A.; and El-Ashry, Mohamed T.
"Winning the War on Biodiversity Conservation"
(New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 38-39)

WEB SITES

American Museum of Natural History: Biodiversity
http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/

Association for Biodiversity Information
http://www.abi.org

Biodiversity Information Network
http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/

Conservation International
http://www.conservation.org

Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org

Council on Environmental Quality
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ

Environmental Protection Agency, Ecosystems
http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/ecoterreforests.html

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Oceans
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Wetlands
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands

Forest Conservation Portal
http://www.forests.org

International Coral Reef Initiative
http://www.icriforum.org

Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/caff/index.htm

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
http://www.ramsar.org

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
http://www.r7.fws.gov/nwr/arctic/arctic.html

The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
http://www.conbio.rice.edu/vl/

World Resources Institute: Biological Resources
http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/

CD ROM

Conserving Earth’s Biodiversity. Edward O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman. Island Press.