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This book begins with conservation biology, and it will end with conser-
vation biology; we return in the final chapters to the problems of both
measuring and valuing biodiversity, with, we hope, a much richer un-
derstanding of the nature of biodiversity. In the road ahead, one theme
will be central. To what extent is the species structure of a biota—its