Why Ecosystems Matter: Preserving the Key to Our Survival

by Christopher Wills

Every one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldron

Christopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in variety, especially of microbes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192887572
• ISBN13: 9780192887573
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.8"