Through the jungle of biological diversity

被引：123

作者：

Ricotta, C ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Plant Biol, I-00185 Rome, Italy

来源：

ACTA BIOTHEORETICA | 2005年 / 53卷 / 01期

关键词：

functional diversity; Schur concavity; taxonomic diversity; weak diversity measures;

D O I：

10.1007/s10441-005-7001-6

中图分类号：

Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Biological diversity would apparently seem the most intuitive and easily studied of all the ecological concepts. However, in practice biodiversity has suffered from great number of definitions that vary with the specific needs of the different researchers, thus making it extremely confusing as an ecological concept. In this paper, I shortly review the concept of biodiversity showing that there exists a substantial ambiguity among ecologists as far as biodiversity conceptualization and evaluation is concerned. I conclude that, due to this major disagreement on its very nature, biodiversity may be defined simply as a set of multivariate summary statistics for quantifying different characteristics of community structure.

引用

页码：29 / 38

页数：10

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