Measuring biological diversity

This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how tomeasure biodiversity.

The diversity of life on earth inspires fundamentalecological questions concerning the abundance of species and their distributionover space and time.

The rapid loss of this diversity, primarily due to theimpact of humanity, makes the need for effective ways of measuring biologicaldiversity more important than ever.

As the successor to the author"sinfluential Ecological Diversity and its Measurement, this book has beencompletely rewritten to reflect the explosion of interest in biodiversity in the