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The term biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it. Biodiversity includes not only species we consider rare, threatened, or endangered, but every living thing—even organisms we still know...
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The term biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it. Biodiversity includes not only species we consider rare, threatened, or endangered, but every living thing—even organisms we still know little about, such as microbes, fungi, and invertebrates. Biodiversity is important everywhere; species and habitats in your area as well as those in distant lands all play a role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. read less
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The variety of life at every hierarchical level and spatial scale of biological organisations: genes within populations, populations within species, species within communities, communities within landscapes, landscapes within biomes, and biomes within the biosphere.
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the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.
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Its a Synonym of Biological diversity referring to variety or you can say variability of life on earth.
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Biodiversity refers of the diversity of life, i.e the variability of species (animals and plants) in the planet. This is also inclusive of the variability within species, between species and also between ecosystems.
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Biodiversity = Bio + Diversity. Bio means life, diversity means variation. So biodiversity means the different forms of life. There are huge number of different species on earth(1-1.4 crore) according to Wikipedia
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The existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species in their natural environments, which is the aim of conservationists concerned about the indiscriminate destruction of rain forests and other habitats. This is known as Biodiversity.
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Bio means life and diversity means variability. So biodiversity means variability of life on earth.Different number of species on ecosystem.
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Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.
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Just what it sounds to be, biodiversity is the diversity (variety) of the living things, the difference in the kinds of species in any ecosystem or the earth itself. Say, if there are 6 different kinds of animals and plants in Durgapur and 8 different kinds of animals and plants in Panjipur, then Panjipur...
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Just what it sounds to be, biodiversity is the diversity (variety) of the living things, the difference in the kinds of species in any ecosystem or the earth itself. Say, if there are 6 different kinds of animals and plants in Durgapur and 8 different kinds of animals and plants in Panjipur, then Panjipur has greater biodiversity. read less
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