From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity

Chapter 1 Biodiversity Healing

Chapter 2 The Hidden Biodiversity Data Retained in Pre-Linnaean Works: A Case Study with Two Important XVII Century Italian Entomologists

Chapter 3 Marine Biodiversity Databanks

Chapter 4 Problems and Questions Posed by Cryptic Species. A Framework to Guide Future Studies

Chapter 5 The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity

Chapter 6 Measures of Biological Diversity: Overview and Unified Framework

Chapter 7 Essential Biodiversity Change Indicators for Evaluating the Effects of Anthropocene in Ecosystems at a Global Scale

Chapter 8 Are Species Good Units for Biodiversity Studies and Conservation Efforts?

Chapter 9 Why a Species-Based Approach to Biodiversity Is Not Enough. Lessons from Multispecies Biofilms

Chapter 10 Considering Intra-individual Genetic Heterogeneity to Understand Biodiversity

Chapter 11 Biodiversity, Disparity and Evolvability

Chapter 12 Probing the Process-Based Approach to Biodiversity: Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity?

Chapter 13 Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Unity of Theoretical Ecology

Chapter 14 Functional Biodiversity and the Concept of Ecological Function

Chapter 15 Integrating Ecology and Evolutionary Theory: A Game Changer for Biodiversity Conservation?

Chapter 16 On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining ‘‘Biodiversity’’

Chapter 17 The Vagueness of “Biodiversity” and Its Implications in Conservation Practice

Chapter 18 What Should “Biodiversity” Be?

Chapter 19 Natural Diversity: How Taking the Bio- out of Biodiversity Aligns with Conservation Priorities

Chapter 20 Ordinary Biodiversity. The Case of Food