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| Introduction | |
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| Biodiversity: What Is It? | |
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| Biodiversity: Why Is It Important? | |
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| Biodiversity at Its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles | |
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| Measuring Global Biodiversity and Its Decline | |
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| Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity | |
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| The Global Biodiversity of Coral Reefs: A Comparison with Rain Forests | |
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| Common Measures for Studies of Biodiversity: Molecular Phylogeny in the Eukaryotic Microbial World | |
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| The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues | |
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| Human-Caused Extinction of Birds | |
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| Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: A Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary | |
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| Plant Response to Multiple Environmental Stresses: Implications for Climatic Change and Biodiversity | |
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| Names: The Keys to Biodiversity | |
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| Systematics: A Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity | |
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| Biodiversity and Systematics: Their Application to Agriculture | |
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| Snout Moths: Unraveling the Taxonomic Diversity of a Speciose Group in the Neotropics | |
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| Phylogeny and Historical Reconstruction: Host-Parasite Systems as Keystones in Biogeography and Ecology | |
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| Comparative Behavioral and Biochemical Studies of Bowerbirds and the Evolution of Bower-Building | |
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| Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology | |
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| The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity | |
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| Initial Assessment of Character Sets from Five Nuclear Gene Sequences in Animals | |
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| Gap Analysis for Biodiversity Survey and Maintenance | |
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| Conservation of Biodiversity in Neotropical Primates | |
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| Using Marine Invertebrates to Establish Research and Conservation Priorities | |
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| Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity | |
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| Tropical Sustainable Development and Biodiversity | |
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| Wildland Biodiversity Management in the Tropics | |
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| Taxonomic Preparedness: Are We Ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge? | |
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| Museums, Research Collections, and the Biodiversity Challenge | |
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| Resources for Biodiversity in Living Collections and the Challenges of Assessing Microbial Biodiversity | |
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| Integration of Data for Biodiversity Initiatives | |
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| Information Management for Biodiversity: A Proposed U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center | |
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| Santa Rosalia, the Turning of the Century, and a New Age of Exploration | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |