Further reading

Want to read more about Biodiversity?

We have created a collection of reading materials by week for even more depth. Hopefully you will enjoy it.

Wilson, E. O. 2016. Half-earth: our planet’s fight for life. WW Norton & Company.
A book by one of the biggest biologists of our time, proposing to set aside half of the Earth’s land as human-free nature reserves to protect biodiversity.

Costanza, R., de Groot, R., Sutton, P., van der Ploeg, S., Anderson, S.J., Kubiszewski, I., Farber, S., Turner, R.K., 2014. Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 26, 152-158.
A study discussing the trends and challenges related to the value of ecosystem services, including ecosystem services provided by biodiversity

Díaz S, Fargione J, Chapin FS III, Tilman D (2006) Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being. PLoS Biol 4(8): e277. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040277
A study which explains how human societies have been built on biodiversity, and how the current biodiversity loss will potentially affect humanity.