Antedating of "Biodiversity"

[Fred Shapiro]

biodiversity (OED 1987)

1985 _BioScience_ 35: 336 (JSTOR)  Support research related to
biodiversity conservation institutions and increase conservation training.

[NOTE: Bill Mullins has previously posted two 1968 citations for this
term, but one of these is definitely erroneous and I imagine the other one
must be also -- just too early.]

Fred Shapiro


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