Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis

Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis Synopsis

Which species can be saved, when all cannot? This book provides the tools for finding the answers to the current biodiversity crisis, based on systematic reasoning. Systematists are in a position to identify critical areas of endemism, and additional criteria for the identification of habitats and species most urgently in need of protection.;Noted systematists, paleontologists and ecologists explore the relationship between ecology and systematics, as it pertains to understanding the origin, maintenance, and loss of biological diversity.