What Is “Biocultural Diversity”?
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Indicators of Biocultural Diversity
Presentation by Luisa Maffifor the Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network
8 June, 2006
What Is “Biocultural Diversity”?
Interrelationship of all forms of the diversity of life:
•Biological
•Cultural
•Linguistic
Global Overlaps Between Biological and Cultural Diversity
Worldwide, biological diversity (represented by plant diversity) and cultural diversity (represented by language diversity) strongly overlap.
Why Measure Biocultural Diversity?
•From correlations to causation•Raise profile of and support for BCD•Guide strategic decision-making
Index of Biocultural Diversity (IBCD)
Jonathan Loh and David Harmon
• Aggregates measures of biodiversity and cultural diversity
• State indicator• National (country) level• Snapshot
Components of the IBCDCultural diversity (CD) indicators:
• number of languages (LD)• number of ethnic groups (ED)• number of religions (RD)
Biodiversity (BD) indicators:• number of bird and mammal species (MD)• number of plant species (PD)
Data sources
• Ethnologue 14th edition (Grimes 2000): No. of languages
• World Christian Encyclopaedia (Barrett et al. 2001): No. of religions; No. of ethnic groups
• Global Biodiversity (Groombridge and Jenkins 2002): No. of bird and mammal species; No. of plant species
How scores for the 5 diversity indicators are calculated
Using Language Diversity (LD) as an example:
LD = log of the number of languages spoken in a given country (Li) divided by the log of the total number of languages spoken in the world (Lworld).
LD = log Li / log Lworld
Sample LD calculation:Papua New Guinea
PNG has 833 languages. The log of 862 is 2.92.
The world has (approximately) 6800 languages. The log of 6800 is 3.83.
Therefore, PNG’s LD score is:2.92 / 3.83 = 0.76
The global LD score is, by definition, 1.00:3.83 / 3.83 = 1.00
LD = log Li/log Lworld.
LD: from highest to lowest
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No. languages spoken (L) Log L
LD (log Li/log Lworld)
World 6,800 3.83 1.00Papua New Guinea (highest) 833 2.92 0.76
Mali (average) 45 1.65 0.43Bermuda (lowest) 1 0.00 0.00
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• IBCD-RICH – unadjusted counts of a country’s BCD richness
• IBCD-AREA – BCD richness adjusted for a country’s land area
• IBCD-POP – BCD richness adjusted for a country’s population size
Expected diversity is based on the species/area
relationshiplog S = c + z log A
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IBCD-AREA: expected log Ni = c + z log Ai
IBCD-POP: expected log Ni = c + z log Pi
IBCD-AREABirds&Mammals-Area Curve
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