Review of Kansas Wildlife

Authors

Don Cunningham, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Date of this Version

1992

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:4 (Fall 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

A catchword current among naturalists is "biodiversity," a term used to describe the variety and number of organisms present in an area. Biodiversity is one measure of the "health" of an environment, and the term itself is probably a useful one, as 1t can efficiently suggest environmental quality and the complex interrelationship among living things, plant and animal.