“In a world less hellbent on exhausting its natural resource capital, a prescription for the maintenance of diversity in tropical forests would be simple: leave them alone . . . It is only when we insist on tampering with nature that diversity is threatened” (Terborgh, 1992a).
- 1) Extent of losses
- 2) Biodiversity “hot spots”
- 3) Estimation of species extinctions
- 4) Consequences of biodiversity loss
- 5) Causes of recent declines in biodiversity
- 6) Endangered areas
- 7) Endangered organisms
- 8) Value of biological diversity
- 9) Conservation of biodiversity
- 10) How can the loss of biodiversity be halted?
- 12) Disturbance of adjacent unlogged areas
