Biodiversity Data Sourcebook from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)

Given the grounding previously provided in Global Biodiversity, the present volume concentrates on data rather than text and provides an illustrative set of data tables, in part revised and expanded from the earlier volume. The choice of data to be included and the manner of presentation have been determined with the likely end-users borne strongly in mind. With this aim, most data are presented in standardised tables by country, so that they are immediately available to users working at a national level but can also be placed easily in regional and global contexts.

Overall, they give a good indication of the global availability of information on many aspects of biodiversity, drawing attention to some of the gaps that exist and to the regional imbalances in the distribution of biodiversity and the resources that have been devoted to its assessment and study.