What is biodiversity?:
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1. Verfasser: Maclaurin, James (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-205) and index
Taxonomy red in tooth and claw -- Species: a modest proposal -- Disparity and diversity -- Morphology and morphological diversity -- Development and diversity -- Explorations in ecospace -- Conservation biology: the measurement problem -- Conservation biology: the evaluation problem -- Concluding remarks
In the life sciences, there is wide-ranging debate about biodiversity. While nearly everyone is in favor of biodiversity and its conservation, methods for its assessment vary enormously. So what exactly is biodiversity? Most theoretical work on the subject assumes it has something to do with species richness--with the number of species in a particular region--but in reality, it is much more than that. Arguing that we cannot make rational decisions about what it is to be protected without knowing what biodiversity is, James Maclaurin and Kim Sterelny offer in What Is Biodiversity? a theoretical a
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ISBN:0226500802
0226500810
0226500829
9780226500805
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