What is biodiversity? / James Maclaurin and Kim Sterelny.

By:

Maclaurin, James

Contributor(s):

Sterelny, Kim

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226500829
0226500829
128196588X
9781281965882
9786611965884
6611965882

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: What is biodiversity?.DDC classification:

333.95 22

LOC classification:

QH541.15.B56 M325 2008eb

Other classification:

WI 2000

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-205) and index.

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.