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Measuring biological diversity
Current Biology, 2021As prehistoric cave paintings illustrate, our species has had an enduring appreciation of the variety and abundance of life on Earth. Today, however, concern is focused on the pressure humanity is placing on the natural world, and on the continued ability of ecosystems to deliver the services on which we all depend.
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1995
As a philosopher who has written on the subject of endangered species policy, I am asked from time to time to join a panel discussion on “the value of biological diversity.” Consider a representative example: At the National Forum on Biodiversity, a 1986 conference organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, I shared ...
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As a philosopher who has written on the subject of endangered species policy, I am asked from time to time to join a panel discussion on “the value of biological diversity.” Consider a representative example: At the National Forum on Biodiversity, a 1986 conference organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, I shared ...
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Biological Diversity — An Overview
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 2000Despite the overwhelming importance of biodiversity and the growing demand for the genes and chemicals, biodiversity is being lost at alarming rates, largely as a result of human action enhancing degradation of biologically rich ecosystems like tropical rain forests, grassland and coral reefs.
M. Waldman, Y. Shevah
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2001
Abstract We now return to more conventional biological turf to develop some appreciation for the way that biological diversity might really be, out in nature, a Part and independent of our perception of it. With biological diversity, I refer simply to variation, both phenotypic and genotypic, that occurs among organisms. At the outset of
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Abstract We now return to more conventional biological turf to develop some appreciation for the way that biological diversity might really be, out in nature, a Part and independent of our perception of it. With biological diversity, I refer simply to variation, both phenotypic and genotypic, that occurs among organisms. At the outset of
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Measuring biological diversity
Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 1994The diversity of a set of species refers to the joint dissimilarity of the species in the set. This paper discusses the measurement of diversity from the set of pairwise distances between the species in the set. A measure called the effective number of species is developed from a non-parametric probability inequality and is shown to have a simple ...
Andrew R. Solow, Stephen Polasky
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Diversity: Cultural and biological
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1987Early human populations utilized a wide range of biological resources in a tremendous diversity of environments. As a result, they possessed high levels of cultural diversity dependent on and supportive of high levels of biological diversity. This pattern changed drastically with technological innovations enabling certain human groups to break down ...
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Measuring Biological Diversity
Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2005Measuring Biological ...
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