Antedating of "Biodiversity"

[Mullins, Bill]

"National Forum on BioDiversity"
The Washington Post; Aug 22, 1986; Weekend section p. 2 col 3.
[term appears only in article title]

And some article citations (I couldn't get to full-text or page images)
which appear to antedate:

Wilson, E.O. 1985. The biodiversity crisis: A challenge to science.
Issues in Science and Technology
2: 20-29.

Lloyd, M., Zar, J.H., Karr, J.R., 1968.  On the calculation of
informational-theoretical measures of biodiversity.  Am. Midl. Nat. 79,
257-272.

Cairns, J.; Albaugh, D. W.; Busey, F.; Chaney, D. 1968:  The sequential
comparison index -- a simplified method for non-biologists to estimate
relative differences in biodiversity in stream pollution.  Journal of
Water Pollution Control Federation 40:1607 - 1613.


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> biodiversity (OED 1987)
>
> 1986 _Nature_ 18 Sept. 193  The group, which will probably be
> restricted to 10 members, intends to make its first
> declaration at the start of a three-day symposium on
> "bioDiversity" to be held this week by the National Academy
> of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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>
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