Michael Hoffmann, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Ariadne Angulo, Monika Böhm et al.
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496 , published online 26 October) review quantitative scenarios that have been developed for four main areas of concern: species extinctions, species abundances a...
Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, Jonathan Baillie, Philip Bowles et al.
Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapi...
Frederick T. Short, Beth Polidoro, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world’s coastal oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species, playing a critical role in the equilibrium of coastal ecosystems and human livelihoods. For the first time, the probability...
Book Reviews are in this Articles. Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa Jonathan Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ix and 228 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-30867-4); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-31358-9). Atop the Urb...