Front Matter -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Biodiversity: What Is It? -- CHAPTER 3 Biodiversity: Why Is It Important? -- CHAPTER 4 Biodiversity at Its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles -- CHAPTER 5 Measuring Global Biodiversity and Its Decline -- CHAPTER 6 Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity -- CHAPTER 7 The Global Biodiversity of Coral Reefs: A Comparison with Rain Forests -- CHAPTER 8 Common Measures for Studies of Biodiversity: Molecular Phylogeny in the Eukaryotic Microbial World -- CHAPTER 9 The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues -- CHAPTER 10 Human-Caused Extinction of Birds -- CHAPTER 11 Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: A Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary -- CHAPTER 12 Plant Response to Multiple Environmental Stresses: Implications for Climatic Change and Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 13 Names: The Keys to Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 14 Systematics: A Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 15 Biodiversity and Systematics: Their Application to Agriculture -- CHAPTER 16 Snout Moths: Unraveling the Taxonomic Diversity of a Speciose Group in the Neotropics -- CHAPTER 17 Phylogeny and Historical Reconstruction: Host-Parasite Systems as Keystones in Biogeography and Ecology -- CHAPTER 18 Comparative Behavioral and Biochemical Studies of Bowerbirds, and the Evolution of Bower-Building -- CHAPTER 19 Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology -- CHAPTER 20 The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 21 Initial Assessment of Character Sets from Five Nuclear Gene Sequences in Animals1 -- CHAPTER 22 GAP Analysis for Biodiversity Survey and Maintenance -- CHAPTER 23 Conservation of Biodiversity in Neotropical Primates -- CHAPTER 24 Using Marine Invertebrates to Establish Research and Conservation Priorities.

CHAPTER 25 Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 26 Tropical Sustainable Development and Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 27 Wildland Biodiversity Management in the Tropics1 -- CHAPTER 28 Taxonomic Preparedness: Are We Ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge? -- CHAPTER 29 Museums, Research Collections, and the Biodiversity Challenge -- CHAPTER 30 Resources for Biodiversity in Living Collections and the Challenges of Assessing Microbial Diversity -- CHAPTER 31 Integration of Data for Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 32 Information Management for Biodiversity: A Proposed U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center -- CHAPTER 33 Santa Rosalia, the Turning of the Century, and a New Age of Exploration -- Photo Credits -- Index.