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Biodiversity and Conservation Flashcards

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The term biodiversity was popularised by

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Edward Wilson

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Global species diversity was estimated at about 7 million by

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Robert May

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Increased biodiversity contributed to higher productivity was shown by long-term ecosystem experiments using outdoor plots by

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David Tilman

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The rivet popper hypothesis is an analogy used by Standford ecologist

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Paul Ehrlich

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Species-area relationship graph was plotted by

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German naturalist and geographer, Alexander von Humboldt

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