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What species mean : a user's guide to the units of biodiversity / Julia D. Sigwart. by Sigwart, Julia, author. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018] Series:  Species and systematics. Description:  xv, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. Contents:  Introduction -- General concepts -- Everyone uses species -- Why do the names keep changing? -- Species are units of evolution -- Natural patterns in classification -- Are species real? -- How to name a species -- Biodiversity and extinction through time -- How many species are there? -- Dynamic patterns in biodiversity -- Translating biodiversity across cultural barriers. Summary:  "Everyone uses species. All human cultures, whether using science or not, name species. Species are the basic units for science, from ecosystems to model organisms. Yet, there are communication gaps between the scientists who name species, called taxonomists or systematists, and those who use species names--everyone else. This book opens the 'black box' of species names, to explain the tricks of the name-makers to the name-users. Species are real, and have macroevolutionary meaning, and it follows that systematists use a broadly macroevolution-oriented approach in describing diversity. But scientific names are used by all areas of science, including many fields such as ecology that focus on timescales more dominated by microevolutionary processes. This book explores why different groups of scientists understand and use the names given to species in very different ways, and the consequences for measuring and understanding biodiversity."--Page 4 of cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 576.8 Sig 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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