The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
by
Megan Raby
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists...