Download or read book Restoring Diversity written by and published by Island Press. This book was released on with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April, 1993, a conference of academic biologists, agency staff members, activists. and other experts critically explored the value of ecological restoration as a conservation strategy. Restoring Diversity examines and expands on the issues set forth at that gathering, including strategy, case studies, the biology of restoration and the use of mitigation in rare plant conservation.