Biodiversity: wildlife in trouble / Edward O. Wilson -- Profile: Abebe Getahun -- What's this biodiversity and what's it done for us today? / Norman Myers -- Case study: the Audubon guide to seafood -- Deforestation in the tropics / Robert C. Repetto -- Biodiversity and human health / Francesca T. Grifo -- Profile: Kevin Browngoehl -- Biodiversity: what it is and why we need it / Paul R. Ehrlich, Simon A. Levin -- Hot spots / David Ehrenfeld -- Case study: the Green Guerillas, New York City -- What have we lost, what are we losing? / Peter H. Raven -- Profile: Amy Vedder -- Chemical prospecting: the new natural history / Thomas Eisner -- Profile: Dolores R. Santoliquido -- Evolution, extinction, and humanity's place in nature / Niles Eldredge -- Case study: St. Lucia parrot recovery -- Profile: Clare Flemming -- The 40,000-year plague: humans, hyperdisease, and first-contact extinctions / Ross D.E. MacPhee, Preston A. Marx -- Prehistoric extinctions and ecological changes on Oceanic Islands / Helen F. James -- Case study: brown-eyed, milk-giving... and extinct: losing mammals since A.D. 1500 -- Global warming, loss of habitat, and pollution: introduction to "Thompson's ice corps, " "nest gains, nest losses, " and "hormonal sabotage" / Kefyn M. Catley -- Thompson's ice corps / Mark Bowen -- Nest gains, nest losses / Scott K. Robinson -- Case study: Lake Victoria -- Hormonal sabotage / Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers -- Case study: reefs in crisis -- The new geologic force: man / Fairfield Osborn -- Profile: Jane Goodall -- Case study: Humpback Whale Conservation Genetics Project, Madagascar -- Conservation biology and wildlife management in America: a historical perspective / Curt Meine -- Profile: Jaime A. Pinkham --

Managing the biosphere: the essential role of systematic biology / Joel Cracraft -- Case study: Wilderness Preservation Act, U.S.A. -- How to grow a wildland: the gardenification of nature / Daniel H. Janzen -- Case study: the Belize Ethnobotany Reserve project -- Profile: Penelope Bodry-Sanders -- The economic value of earth's resources / Graciela Chichilnisky -- Profile: Michael Balick -- Case study: Jaguars -- Strategies and solutions: mapping the biodiversity / Prashant M. Hedao -- Community-based approaches for combining conservation and development / Nick Salafsky -- Case study: restoration of the Elwha River by dam removal, Washington -- No free lunch in the rain forest / Charles M. Peters.