Biodiversity and extinction books

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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.

The Diversity of Life
Edward Osborne Wilson
A widely read account of how species are distributed and how humans are reducing that variety, written for a general audience by a leading entomologist.
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The Sixth Extinction
Richard E. Leakey
Argues that human activity is causing a sixth mass extinction, drawing on the fossil record and the study of current species loss. Written with Roger Lewin.
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The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
A journalistic survey of past mass extinctions and of current species losses, with reporting from field sites and laboratories. It is one of the most widely read recent books on the subject.
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Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement
Anne E. Magurran
A standard technical introduction to the indices and sampling methods used to measure diversity within and between communities.
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Biodiversity
John Spicer
A textbook-level overview of the concept of biodiversity, its scales, its measurement and the patterns that ecologists study. Gaston is the listed author on the Open Library record.
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