Fifty Years After the "Homage to Santa Rosalia": Old and New Paradigms on Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems

This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of George Evelyn Hutchinson's influential article "Homage to Santa Rosalia," which sparked ecological research on biodiversity. It explores the legend of Santa Rosalia and Hutchinson's discoveries about life's variety on Earth. Aimed at ecologists and historians of science, it celebrates biological diversity.