Title | From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity [electronic resource] : Conceptual and Practical Challenges / edited by Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi |
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Imprint | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019 |
Edition | 1st ed. 2019 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10991-2 |
Descript | XIV, 452 p. 36 illus. online resource |
Part I. Characterizing Biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach -- Chapter 1. Beyond Biodiversity and Speciation – Disparity and Evolvability (Alessandro Minelli) -- Chapter 2. Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity? (Davide Vecchi, Rob Mills) -- Chapter 3. Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Theoretical Unity of Ecology (Philippe Huneman) -- Chapter 4. Functional Biodiversity and the Idea that Organisms Fulfil Functional Roles within Ecological Units (Antoine C. Dussault) -- Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luís Borda de Agua) -- Part II. Estimating Biodiversity: Limitation and Challenges -- Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Research to Understand and to Correct the Impacts of Species Concepts and Ignored Cryptic Species on Biodiversity Assessments (Anne Chenuil) -- Chapter 7. Statistical Measures of Biological Diversity: A Unified Framework and Discussion (Vincenzo Crupi) -- Chapter 8. Measuring Biodiversity from Traits to Landscapes (Cristina Branquino) -- Part III. Representing Biodiversity: Cognitive Representation and Representation by Specimen -- Chapter 9. The Representations of Biodiversity (Anouk Barberousse) -- Chapter 10. Natural History Collections as Models of the Diversity of the Natural World (Judite Alves) -- Chapter 11. News from the Battlefield: Bridging Epistemologies and Ontologies in the Field of Biodiversity (Marie Roué) -- Chapter 12. On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining ‘Biodiversity’ – and its Function as a Mediator Between Heterogeneous Fields (Georg Toepfer) -- Chapter 13. Value-Ladeness of Biodiversity. A Post-Normal Conceptual Analysis (Matthias Kaiser) -- Part IV. Conserving Biodiversity: From Science to Policies -- Chapter 14. Conservation Sovereignty and Biodiversity (Marku Oksanen & Timo Vuorisalo) -- Chapter 15. The Vagueness of “Biodiversity” and its Implications in Conservation Practice (Yves Meinard, Sylvain Coq, Bernhard Schmid) -- Chapter 16. The Role of Communities in Biodiversity Conservation. The Case of Multispecies Biofilms (Jorge Marques da Silva, Elena Casetta) -- Chapter 17. Modification of Habitats and Introduction of Exotic Species in Marine and Estuarine Environments: Always a Threat or Sometimes an Opportunity to Increase Biodiversity and to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation? (José Lino Costa, et al) -- Chapter 18. Ordinary Biodiversity. The Case of Food (Andrea Borghini)