This is our website area for resources, links, images, and offerings connected to the Advanced Biodiversity Studies course.
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/biodiversity-photo-gallery/
Biodiversity – the complete story
A “Biodiversity course” online at the California Academy of Sciences:
https://www.calacademy.org/biodiversity-course
The Species Problem:
Brent Mishler says species are not *uniquely* real entities, but that they are just as real as other groups we define at different levels of taxonomy – what does this mean for us?
http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200/readings/Mishler%202010%20(Arp%20&%20Ayala).pdf
This piece put forward on the American Museum of Natural History website makes an excellent case for why the question of what a species is (or is not) matters to our understanding of biological phenomena. It also describes many of the sticking points very well.
https://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/pdfs/2000c.Species%20concepts%20debate.pdf
This slide set reviews species concepts very effectively!
http://faculty.evansville.edu/de3/b32003/Lecture%20Summaries/Ch15a_Speciesconcepts.pdf
Problems Inherent in the Species Concepts and Possible Work-Arounds:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~aeb25/species2.html
Brown University Evolutionary Biology course – species concepts:
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BIO48/20.SpeciesConcepts.HTML
Genetic connections – genetic relatedness in a sexually reproducing population of beetles – A helpful look at how a population of individuals in a species maintains gene flow among intertwined lineages
The Diversity of Life from EOWilson Biodiversity Foundation on Vimeo.