American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

by Megan Raby and Megan Raby

Book Overview

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469635607
• ISBN13: 9781469635606
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"