📚 Biodiversity

Variety as a quantity: how it is measured and explained, and the case — ecological, medical, moral — for keeping it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject biodiversity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins	1986	28
	Environmental science	Daniel B. Botkin	1995	26
	The Diversity of Life	Edward Osborne Wilson	1992	18
	Geodiversity	Murray Gray	2003	10
	Diversifying Food and Diets	Jessica Fanzo	2013	8
	Bitch	Lucy Cooke	2021	8
	Animal diversity	Cleveland P. Hickman, Jr.	1995	7
	Primer of Conservation Genetics	Richard Frankham	2004	7
	Concepts and Values in Biodiversity	Dirk Lanzerath	2014	7
	Philosophy and Biodiversity	Markku Oksanen	2004	6
	Economic Value of Biodiversity	David Pearce	2013	6
	Biodiversity	Usha Tandon	2017	6
	An introduction to tropical rain forests	T. C. Whitmore	1990	5
	Biodiversity	Kevin J. Gaston	1996	5
	Biodiversity II	Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla	1996	5
	The variety of life	Colin Hiram Tudge	2000	5
	Problemy sokhranenii︠a︡ i rat︠s︡ionalʹnogo ispolʹzovanii︠a︡ bioraznoobrazii︠a︡ Prikaspii︠a︡ i sopredelʹnykh regionov	G. M. Borlikov	2004	5
	Biodiversity and Conservation	Michael J. Jeffries	2005	5
	Biodiversity	John Spicer	2006	5
	Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation	Ben Collen	2013	5
	Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity	Justin Garson	2016	5
	Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests	L. Katherine Kirkman	2017	5
	Extraordinary Insects	Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson	2019	5
	Ethnopharmacology and Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants	Jayanta Kumar Patra	2019	5
	Ecological diversity and its measurement	Anne E. Magurran	1988	4
	Biodiversity Conservation	C. A. Perrings	1995	4
	Biodiversity	Dorothy Hinshaw Patent	1996	4
	Ecosystem management	Fred B. Samson	1996	4
	Biodiversity	Simon A. Levin	1996	4
	Flammable Australia	Ross A. Bradstock	2001	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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