A biological survey for the nation / Committee on the Formation of the National Biological Survey, Commission on the Formation of the National Biological Survey, National Research Council. - Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993. - 1 online resource (xv, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps

Committee chairman: Peter H. Raven. Study was sponsored by the Department of the Interior contract 14-48-0009-93-013. "The Department of the Interior has begun the process of forming a new agency, the National Biological Survey (NBS)"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index.

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