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The requirement that a party bringing a lawsuit have a close enough connection to the dispute, and a real injury from it, to be entitled to have a court decide the matter: without standing (in older usage locus standi) a court will not hear the claim, no matter how strong it seems. Fletcher's 1988 The Structure of Standing argued that standing is really a question about who the law gives a right to enforce, rather than a free-standing test, and it remains a central account of the doctrine. The referent is a legal qualification to sue, held or not held by a person before a court, and it has nothing to do with a person's rank in society or the amount of living matter in a habitat.[1]
A person's or group's position in a social hierarchy of respect, esteem, and prestige: those with high standing are looked up to and treated as more worthy, while those with low standing are accorded less regard, and this ranking shapes influence and opportunity independently of money or force. Ridgeway's 2014 Why Status Matters for Inequality set out how these differences in esteem form, spread, and harden into durable inequality between groups. The referent is a rung on a ladder of social esteem, held relative to other people, and it is unrelated to a court's permission to sue or to a count of living matter in an ecosystem.[2]
The total amount of living material present in a population or area at a single moment, also called standing stock or standing biomass: it is a quantity held at an instant, and it must be kept apart from productivity, which is the rate at which that living material is made over time. Odum's 1957 study Trophic Structure and Productivity of Silver Springs, Florida measured both together and made the distinction concrete, showing that a large standing crop can coexist with slow production, and a small one with fast production. The referent is a mass of living tissue measured at a point in time, weighed in units of mass per area, and it has no connection to a right to sue or to a person's social rank.[3]
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