Through the jungle of biological diversity
Through the jungle of biological diversity
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DOI：
10.1007/s10441-005-7001-6
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Ricotta, C
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作者：
Ricotta, C
生物多样性显然是所有生态学概念中最直观、最容易研究的。然而，在实践中，生物多样性受到大量定义的影响，这些定义因不同研究人员的具体需求而异，从而使其作为一个生态概念非常混乱。在本文中，我简要地回顾了生物多样性的概念，表明生态学家之间存在着很大的模糊性，生物多样性的概念化和评价而言。我的结论是，由于这一重大分歧，其性质，生物多样性可以简单地定义为一组多变量的汇总统计，用于量化不同的特点，社区结构。
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.