Also asked, who is considered the father of biodiversity?
His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity" for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.
Also, who first proposed biodiversity? At the ecosystem level, India is also very well-endowed with 10 distinct biogeographic zones. In 1985, Walter G. Rosen first coined the term 'Biodiversity'. It is a compound word of the longer form 'Biological diversity' which was coined by Lovejoy in 1980 to denote the number of species present in a group.
Similarly, it is asked, who is the father of biodiversity in India?
He served as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (1982–88) and became president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1988.
M. S. Swaminathan.
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| Institutions | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
Who gave the word biodiversity?
The word biodiversity is a contraction of the phrase "biological diversity" and was first coined in 1985 by Walter Rosen of the National Research Council as a title word in a seminar he was organizing to discuss biological diversity.
