Biodiversity. A Biology of Numbers and Difference

This book is a timely publication on the developing science of biodiversity. Edited by Kevin J. Gaston, a research fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, it boasts contributors from a number of universities and research centres in the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and India. Their combined understanding and experience gives depth to this publication. The book represents an attempt to define biodiversity as a science, to evaluate its importance, and to put it into a conservation management context.