What Is Biodiversity?

Maclaurin, James; Sterelny, Kim

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226500829.001.0001

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“…This is very much so in many related philosophy of science texts that have elaborated on the concept of biodiversity (e.g. Oksanen and Pietarinen 2004;Sarkar 2005;MacLaurin and Sterelny 2008) 2 . This situation may be due to the salience of specific conservation issues in the 1980s-1990s and to the prominence of ecologists -and not microbiologists -in this debate (e.g.…”

Section: Biodiversity Macrobes Microbes and Beyondmentioning

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“…Because the term "microbe" is typically defined in relationship to sizecharacterizing organisms that are microscopic and too tiny to see with the naked eye (e.g. Black J 2008;Madigan et al 2010) -it cuts across different phylogenetic groups of organisms. It is usually taken to denote members of the domains Bacteria and Archaea (all of which are unicellular), as well as microscopic members of the domain Eukarya (for instance, unicellular algae, some fungi and protists).…”

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Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity

Malaterre

2013

Biol Philos

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Section: Biodiversity Macrobes Microbes and Beyondmentioning

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Section: Why Microbial Diversity?mentioning

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Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity

Malaterre

2013

Biol Philos

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“…These two applications are biodiversity considered as an index, and biodiversity considered as an end. We illustrate how each application places different constraints on how biodiversity is defined (Maclaurin and Sterelny 2008).…”

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Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions

Colyvan

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ABSTRACT. Philosophy of ecology has been slow to become established as an area of philosophical interest, but it is now receiving considerable attention. This area holds great promise for the advancement of both ecology and the philosophy of science. Insights from the philosophy of science can advance ecology in a number of ways. For example, philosophy can assist with the development of improved models of ecological hypothesis testing and theory choice. Philosophy can also help ecologists understand the role and limitations of mathematical models in ecology. On the other side, philosophy of science will be advanced by having ecological case studies as part of the stock of examples. Ecological case studies can shed light on old philosophical topics as well as raise novel issues for the philosophy of science. For example, understanding theoretical terms such as "biodiversity" is important for scientific reasons, but such terms also carry political importance. Formulating appropriate definitions for such terms is thus not a purely scientific matter, and this may prompt a reevaluation of philosophical accounts of defining theoretical terms. We consider some of the topics currently receiving attention in the philosophy of ecology and other topics in need of attention. Our aim is to prompt further exchange between ecology and philosophy of science and to help set the agenda for future work in the philosophy of ecology. The topics covered include: the role of mathematical models, environmental problem formulation, biodiversity, and environmental ethics.

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“…DISCUSSION Availability of biodiversity data is increasing very rapidly allowing researchers, in principle, to perform a large number of analyses. However, as long as the different perspectives (phylogenetic, ecologic, morphologic, functional and others, see MacLaurin & Sterelny (2008)) remain unlinked, the analyses are mostly disconnected from one another. In fact, it is possible to say that the fundamental task of biodiversity informatics should be to enable "integration" of different perspectives of biodiversity (Harmon et al 2013;Miller and Jolley-Rogers 2014;Peterson et al 2010).…”

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Indices of Biodiversity Pattern Based on Presence-Absence Matrices: A GIS Implementation

Soberón

Cavner

2015

Biodiv. Inf.

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Abstract.-In this paper we present mathematical notation and formulae relating a number of indices of the biodiversity pattern of an aggregate of species, one index of phylogenetic similarity, and an implementation of them as linked maps or phylogenies in a plug-in for the increasingly popular open source geographic information system Quantum GIS. We provide detailed formulae relating three indices of beta diversity, two of pattern of nestedness, one of checkerboard pattern, and two of ratios of variances. The above synthesis is achieved by deriving six vectors from the full presence-absence matrix. Our GIS implementation is done via web services, tapping the LifeMapper platform for estimating potential distributions of species.

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What Is Biodiversity?

Cited by 211 publications

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Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity

Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity

Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions

Indices of Biodiversity Pattern Based on Presence-Absence Matrices: A GIS Implementation

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