Biodiversity (Topical Term)

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)

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))

McGraw-Hill dict. of bioscience, 2003 (biodiversity)

National forum on biodiversity, Sept. 21-24, 1986, Washington, D.C. (poster)

Biol. & agr. index.: v. 40, p. 615 (biological diversity, biotic diversity, biological diversification)

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)

Biocomplexity thesaurus website, Mar. 19, 2005 (RT: 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.