There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices and climate change, are all having a direct impact on biodiversity. In this book the Editors provide a broad view of the many pressures imposed by human-induced changes and the many threats to global biodiversity and of the policy responses required to combat them. This excellent text includes the work of some 44 authors and offers a solid description of the current understanding of threats to biodiversity with a range of illustrative examples - a valuable point of reference for ecologists, environmental scientists, and students as well as, policymakers and all other environmental professionals.

Ronald E Hester is at the University of York, UK Roy M Harrison OBE is at the University of Birmingham, UK

Impacts of agricultural change on farmland biodiversity in the UK; The extent and future of global insect biodiversity; Biological invasions in Europe: drivers, pressures, states, impacts and responses; The deep-sea: if we do not understand the biodiversity, can we assess the threat?; Threatened habitats: marginal vegetation in upland areas; Trends in biodiversity in Europe and the impact of land-use change; Tropical moist forests; The implementation of international biodiversity initiatives: constraints and successes; Biodiversity assessment and change - the challenge of appropriate methods; Drivers and pressures on biodiversity in analytical frameworks;