Given the rapidity of global environmental change and the growing ambiguity of the term 'biodiversity', I argue that there is an urgent need to move away from a narrow focus on biological diversity when considering anthropogenic impacts on the biosphere. Rather, an intellectually rigorous global ecology needs to be developed because planetary health requires management of entire ecosystems and the maintenance of biogeochemical cycles. This global perspective must be easily understood by all for it to achieve the same political status as 'biodiversity'
History
Publication title
Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pagination
237-240
ISSN
0960-7447
Department/School
School of Natural Sciences
Publisher
Blackwell
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Other environmental management not elsewhere classified