Biodiversity: Past, Present, and Future
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Paleontology
- Vol. 71 (4) , 533-539
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000040026
Abstract
Biodiversity is the number and variability of genes, species, and communities in space and time (Norse et al., 1986; Wilson, 1988; Heywood and Baste, 1995). The fundamental question that has governed its study in modern times is Hutchinson's (1959): “Why are there so many kinds of animals?” In more recent decades, a somber subquestion has been added: How many species are dying every year (e.g., Wilson, 1992)?Keywords
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