diversity of species

The Foja Mountains of Indonesia: Exploring the Lost World by Bruce M. Beehler
Planetary Biodiversity Inventories: A Response to the Taxonomic Crisis by Lawrence M. Page
Agroforestry and the Maintenance of Biodiversity by Peter Bichier
Plant Genebanks: Food Security by Geoffrey C. Hawtin and Jeremy Cherfas
Ring Species: Unusual Demonstrations of Speciation by Darren E. Irwin
Speciation and Biodiversity an interview with Edward O. Wilson
The Weight of a Petal: The Value of Botanical Gardens by H. Bruce Rinker
Biopiracy: The Legal Perspective by Michael A. Gollin
Species, Speciation and the Environment by Niles Eldredge
Searching for Nature's Medicines an interview with Mark J. Plotkin
Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets by Mark J. Plotkin (Viking Press, 2000)

endangered species

NEW! Polar Bears and Climate Change by Andrew E. Derocher
Pygmy Rabbits in Peril in the U.S.A. by Lisa Shipley
Why Do We Need an Amphibian Ark? by Kevin Zippel
New Threats Endanger Great Whales by World Wildlife Fund
The Sixth Extinction by Niles Eldredge
How Will the Sixth Extinction Affect Evolution of Species? by Norman Myers and Andrew Knoll
Relative Scarcity: Apes on the Edge by Population Action International (PAI)

invasive species

Environmental Impacts of Marine Exotics an interview with James T. Carlton
Introduced Species: The Threat to Biodiversity & What Can Be Done by Daniel Simberloff

management and conservation

Rewilding Megafauna: Lions and Camels in North America? an interview with Interview with Connie Barlow
Natural History Museum Collections in the 21st Century by Keith S. Thomson
Biocomplexity: The New Bioscience Frontier an interview with Rita Rossi Colwell
Loss of Wetlands: How Are Bird Communities Affected? by Robert Fletcher
The Ecological Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology by Miguel Altieri
Bringing Coastal Dead Zones Back to Life by Robert Howarth
Ecosystem Services: A Primer by Ecological Society of America
DNA Patents Create Monopolies on Living Organisms by Council for Responsible Genetics
Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the Developing World by Laura Spinney

microorganisms

Looking for Life on Mars and Beyond by Abigail A. Salyers
Microbes in Court: The Emerging Field of Microbial Forensics by Abigail A. Salyers
Bacteria: More Than Pathogens by Trudy M. Wassenaar
Malaria, Algae, Amoeba and You: Unraveling Eukaryotic Relationships by Joel B. Dacks
Life from Space: An Emerging Paradigm by N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
Microbes: What They Do & How Antibiotics Change Them by Maura Meade-Callahan
Were Bacteria the First Forms of Life on Earth? by Daniel Jeffares and Anthony Poole

students speak out

NEW! The Global Decline of Mollusks by Christine E. Parent
Protecting Bats from Extinction by Nick Tchankoshvili
Wilderness Diagnosis: What Is the White Bengal Tiger's Future? by Swati Mishra
Where Have All the Frogs Gone? UV Radiation and Amphibian Declines by Adrienne Howse
Reintroducing the Gray Wolf in the U.S. by Ryan Johnson