Dead wood is important to the processes, structural complexity, and biodiversity of forested ecosystems.
As forests change along the latitudinal gradient from boreal regions towards the equator, their structural complexity and biodiversity also increase (Pan et al. 2013).
The complexity of biodiversity, its levels of aggregation and its specific relations to "natural" and "anthropogenic" environmental conditions depending on spatio-temporal scales are emphasized.
Such large-scale trials have experienced a revival during the 1990's in response to a renewed interest in management methods aiming to maintain within-stand structural complexity and biodiversity at larger scales.
Apart from the ethical argument around trade-off that individuals have to make between monetary and non-monetary value, application of stated preference method was exposed to another criticism related to the complexity of biodiversity issue and the capacity of the general public to provide accurate responses to willingness to pay elicitation survey.
Our results highlight the complexity and biodiversity of the Saba Bank, and emphasize the need for more scientific exploration.
Biodiversity is already responding to some of these changes (e.g. [43], [44], [45]), and how it will change in the future is difficult to predict because of the complexity of biodiversity, from genes to species to ecosystems.
The complexity of biodiversity includes systems interacting in chaotic and non-linear processes, extreme system effects and interactions between microscopic and macroscopic global levels, as well as on multiple time-scales.
In conclusion, a full consideration of the complexity of biodiversity indicates that the necessary conditions of many contemporary concepts of art would lead to the inclusion of some biotic phenomena as art, or inappropriately exclude human phenomena that are nearly universally recognized as art.
If we can better understand the complexities of biodiversity, then the chance of survival for all Earth's life forms will certainly grow.
