Chapter 48 Web Sites



  • Biodiversity and its value
  • Biodiversity: An Overview
    This introduction is intended to map out in general terms some of the principal themes to be encountered in the field of biological diversity.
  • Web of Life
    A home page dedicated to issues related to biodiversity.
  • Population and Human Development
    Information from the World Resources Institute on age and gender distributions in developing and industrialized nations, fertility rates and female literacy, child mortality rates, daily calories per capita, contraceptive use, and UN population projections.
  • How We Got This Way -- A Brief Review of History
    The harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) is the last resident marine mammal species in the San Francisco Bay, breeding and feeding year-round in its...
  • Maximum Occupancy
    by Joel E. Cohen, February 1996, American Demographics
  • US Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census
    There are many links here that are of importance to human population growth. This web site is the major source of the Census Bureau's vast database of information.
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