Book ID: CBB000954230

What Is Biodiversity? (2008)

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Maclaurin, James (Author)
Sterelny, Kim (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xii + 217 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the definition of the term and how it has been shaped by ecology and conservation biology.


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Essay Review Morgan, Gregory J. (2009) The Many Dimensions of Biodiversity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 235-238). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dussault, Antoine C.
Peres, Sara
Plieninger, Tobias
Hartel, Tibor
van Dijk, Esther M.
Kochupillai, Mrinalini
Concepts
Conservation biology
Biological diversity; biodiversity
Environmental sciences
Ecology
Botany
Extinction (biology)
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
New Guinea
South Africa
Europe
California (U.S.)
Great Britain
Institutions
British Ecological Society
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