References BOOKS Baskin, Yvonne THE WORK OF NATURE: HOW THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE SUSTAINS US Island Press, 1998.

Davidson, Osha Gray THE ENCHANTED BRAID: COMING TO TERMS WITH NATURE ON THE CORAL REEF John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Eldredge, Niles LIFE IN THE BALANCE: HUMANITY AND THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS Princeton, 1998.

Raven, Peter H. and Tania Williams, editors NATURE AND HUMAN SOCIETY: THE QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2000.

Reaka-Kudla, Marjorie L.; and others, editors BIODIVERSITY II Joseph Henry Press, 1997.

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Wilson, Edward O. THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE W.W. Norton, 1999.

ARTICLES

Chapin III, F. Stuart; and others "Consequences of Changing Biodiversity" (Nature, Vol. 405, No. 6783, May 11, 2000, pp. 234-242)

Cincotta, Richard P.; and Engelman, Robert "Biodiversity and Population Growth" (Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 2000, pp. 80-81)

Norris, Scott "A Year for Biodiversity: International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY 2001-2002)" (BioScience, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2000, pp. 103-107)

Tuxill, John "The Biodiversity That People Made--And Are Now Losing" (World Watch, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 24-35)

Wilson, Edward O. "A Global Biodiversity Map" (Science, Vol. 289, No. 5488, September 29, 2000, p. 2279)

Wilson, Edward O. "Vanishing Before Our Eyes" (Time, Vol. 155, No. 17, Spring 2000, pp. 28-34)

Wolfensohn, James D.; Seligmann, Peter A.; and El-Ashry, Mohamed T. "Winning the War on Biodiversity Conservation" (New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 38-39)

WEB SITES

American Museum of Natural History: Biodiversity http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/

Association for Biodiversity Information http://www.abi.org

Biodiversity Information Network http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/

Conservation International http://www.conservation.org

Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org

Council on Environmental Quality http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ

Environmental Protection Agency, Ecosystems http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/ecoterreforests.html

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Oceans http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Wetlands http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands

Forest Conservation Portal http://www.forests.org

International Coral Reef Initiative http://www.icriforum.org

Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/caff/index.htm

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands http://www.ramsar.org

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arctic National Wildlife Refuge http://www.r7.fws.gov/nwr/arctic/arctic.html

The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity http://www.conbio.rice.edu/vl/

World Resources Institute: Biological Resources http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/

CD ROM

Conserving Earthís Biodiversity. Edward O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman. Island Press.