The Marshall Islands, Living Atolls Amidst the Living Seas: The National Biodiversity Report of the Republic of the Marshall Islands by The national Biodiversity Team of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

2 Pages·2002·1.4 MB·English

by  Review By: Amy Trauth Nare

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Marshall Islands, Living Atolls Amidst the Living Seas: National Biodiversity
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Report of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. (ISBN
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Kentucky
University, cites literature both on the biological study of diversity and on the socio-
itself,
natural science of diversity conservation. His effort has received two very prestigious recognitions.
His work was listed in Library Journats Best Reference Sources for 2000, and won the biannual
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2001 Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences.
Two
bibliographies are included in this work. Bibliography "Books and approxi-
Articles," lists
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mately 1,200 monographs and 4,500 articles, while Bibliography "Special Issues," provides a selec-
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His emphasis on
is the literature of the investigation of biodiversity, the written record of efforts to
measure, understand, monitor, and preserve Some self-imposed restrictions had to be considered
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during his exhaustive literature search, which included over one hundred electronic databases and
number
an equal of print bibliographies and references cited Because of space limitations indi-
lists.
vidual papers appearing in edited collections were excluded, as were electronic sources, theses, dis-
sertations, reference works, systematic or floral/faunal revisions, and juvenile literature. Almost every
the English langt
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