In his recent interview with BioScience (Verdier 2021), John Burris repeated the well-known story that the term biodiversity was introduced in the late 1980s by Walter G. Rosen of the National Academy of Sciences. In the first book with biodiversity in its title (Wilson 1988), the editor, E. O. Wilson, indeed attributed the coinage of the term to Rosen (p. vi) at some time during the organization of a “National Forum on BioDiversity” in Washington, DC, from 21 to 24 September 1986. Rosen is supposed to have introduced the term only as a contraction of biological diversity in internal paperwork; however, he soon came to view the term as...

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术语生物多样性的起源

在他最近接受生物科学（Verdier2021)，约翰·伯里斯 (John Burris) 重复了著名的故事，即生物多样性一词是由美国国家科学院的沃尔特·G·罗森 (Walter G. Rosen) 在 1980 年代后期引入的。在第一本以生物多样性为标题的书中（威尔逊1988 年），编辑 EO Wilson 在 1986 年 9 月 21 日至 24 日在华盛顿特区组织“国家生物多样性论坛”期间的某个时间确实将这个词的创造归功于罗森（第 vi 页）。罗森应该只是在内部文书工作中引入该术语作为生物多样性的收缩；然而，他很快就认为这个词是……