A systemic view of biodiversity and its conservation: Processes, interrelationships, and human culture: Presentation of a systemic view of biodiversity and its conservation that emphasizes complex interrelationships among subsystems and includes human culture

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1090-1098

  Sterling, Eleanor J ^a   Gómez, Andrés ^a   Porzecanski, Ana L ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Cultural diversity; Nonlinear dynamics; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649494496     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000049     Document Type: Article

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