The term Biodiversity

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

Hello dear all,

It all started simply with diversity (without bio!) in the 50ies and 60ies.=
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They calculated diversity indices and postulated models for diversity. SO=
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far, it was purely scientific stuff.

Biodiversity as a more political paradigm turned up in the mid-80ies.
A certain Thomas Lovejoy was involved in a project about forest fragments
in Manaus, Amazonia and made reports about this to the president and=20
governmental agencies of the United States using the term biodiversity.

Wilson turned the term popular to a wide range of experts and lay men=20
by his popular books.

=09=09=09Yours,    Thomas

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Robin Leech wrote:

> I believe it was E.O. Wilson.
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> Robin Leech
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> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Geoff Read wrote:
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> > Excuse my ignorance. Who coined the contraction biodiversity and when? =
Can
> > anyone point me to this momentous occasion?
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> > It appears to have leapt into real vogue only in the later 1980's, if i=
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> > usage in paper titles is any guide.
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> > --
> >   Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
> >
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