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Biodiversity


  • Here are entered works on the totality of the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.
  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • Biological diversification
    • Biological diversity
    • Biotic diversity
    • Diversification, Biological
    • Diversity, Biological
  • Broader Terms

  • Related Terms

    • Biocomplexity
    • Ecological heterogeneity
    • Numbers of species
  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Biological diversity
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Technologies to maintain biological diversity, 1988:p. 3 (Biological diversity refers to the variety and variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur. Includes ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity)
    • found: Oxford dict. of biol., 2003(biodiversity (biological diversity): The existence of a wide variety of species (species diversity) or other taxa of plants, animals, and microorganisms in a natural community or habitat, or of communities within a particular environment (ecological diversity), or of genetic variation within a species (generic diversity))
    • found: McGraw-Hill dict. of bioscience, 2003(biodiversity)
    • found: National forum on biodiversity, Sept. 21-24, 1986, Washington, D.C.(poster)
    • found: Biol. & agr. index.:v. 40, p. 615 (biological diversity, biotic diversity, biological diversification)
    • found: Njuguna, S.C. The convention on biological diversity, in Botanical diversity in Southern Africa, 1994:p. 311 (biological diversity ... is the totality of the variety of living organisms the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur)
    • found: Biocomplexity thesaurus website, Mar. 19, 2005(RT: Biodiversity)
    • found: Why is a frog not a toad?, 1992.
  • LC Classification

    • QH92-QH95.6 (Local, by body of water) -- Assigner: DLC
    • QH101-QH198 (Local, by region, etc.) -- Assigner: DLC
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the totality of the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Machine-derived authority record.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2007-07-13: new
    • 2007-07-24: revised
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