| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-205) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Biodiversity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sterelny, Kim.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maclaurin, James. What is biodiversity?. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226500805 0226500802 (DLC) 2007029704 (OCoLC)156874812 |
| ISBN |
9780226500829 (electronic book) |
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0226500829 (electronic book) |
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128196588X |
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9781281965882 |
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9780226500805 |
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0226500802 |
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9780226500812 |
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0226500810 |
| Standard No. |
9786611965884 |
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