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Biodiversity: Resources

The Scope of Biodiversity
Stuart Pimm PhD, Duke University, Nicholas School

 

 

Pimm SL, Askins R. Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern North America.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1995;92: 9343-9347.

Ferraz G, Russell GJ, Stouffer PC, Bierregaard RO, Pimm SL, Lovejoy TE. Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2003;100: 14069-14073.

Pimm SL, Raven P, Peterson A, Sekercioglu CH, Ehrlich PR. Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006;103: 10941-10946.

Biodiversity: Its Importance to Human Health
Eric Chivian, MD, Harvard Medical School

Millennium Ecosystem Assesment