From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity: Conceptual and Practical Challenges

Part I. Characterizing Biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach.- Chapter 1. Beyond Biodiversity and Speciation - Disparity and Evolvability (Alessandro Minelli).- Chapter 2. Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity? (Davide Vecchi, Rob Mills).- Chapter 3. Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Theoretical Unity of Ecology (Philippe Huneman).- Chapter 4. Functional Biodiversity and the Idea that Organisms Fulfil Functional Roles within Ecological Units (Antoine C. Dussault).- Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luís Borda de Agua).- Part II. Estimating Biodiversity: Limitation and Challenges.- Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Research to Understand and to Correct the Impacts of Species Concepts and Ignored Cryptic Species on Biodiversity Assessments (Anne Chenuil).- Chapter 7. Statistical Measures of Biological Diversity: A Unified Framework and Discussion (Vincenzo Crupi).- Chapter 8. Measuring Biodiversity from Traits to Landscapes (Cristina Branquino).- Part III. Representing Biodiversity: Cognitive Representation and Representation by Specimen.- Chapter 9. The Representations of Biodiversity (Anouk Barberousse).- Chapter 10. Natural History Collections as Models of the Diversity of the Natural World (Judite Alves).- Chapter 11. News from the Battlefield: Bridging Epistemologies and Ontologies in the Field of Biodiversity (Marie Roué).- Chapter 12. On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining 'Biodiversity' - and its Function as a Mediator Between Heterogeneous Fields (Georg Toepfer).- Chapter 13. Value-Ladeness of Biodiversity. A Post-Normal Conceptual Analysis (Matthias Kaiser).- Part IV. Conserving Biodiversity: From Science to Policies.- Chapter 14. Conservation Sovereignty and Biodiversity (Marku Oksanen & Timo Vuorisalo).- Chapter 15. The Vagueness of "Biodiversity" and its Implications in Conservation Practice (Yves Meinard, Sylvain Coq, Bernhard Schmid).- Chapter 16. The Role of Communities in Biodiversity Conservation. The Case of Multispecies Biofilms (Jorge Marques da Silva, Elena Casetta).- Chapter 17. Modification of Habitats and Introduction of Exotic Species in Marine and Estuarine Environments: Always a Threat or Sometimes an Opportunity to Increase Biodiversity and to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation? (José Lino Costa, et al).- Chapter 18. Ordinary Biodiversity. The Case of Food (Andrea Borghini).