The Three Factors Of Biodiversity

Biodiversity is an abbreviation for biological diversity. It generally means the ‘diversity of flora and fauna (plants and animals)’ (IB definition). It has three factors, ecosystem, species and genetics. Though tropical rainforests cover less than 2 percent of Earth's surface, they hold around 50% of the world's species. Tropical rainforests are zones of tremendously high biodiversity equated to the rest of the ecosystems. While tropical rainforests have comparisons in their soil composition, and climates, due to the fact that all tropical rainforests are located in a group close to the equator. Temperatures around the equator are high, which outcomes in faster water evaporation, therefore resulting in recurrent rain. While rainforests have

This is because, the more biodiversity preserved, the more plants there are to absorb the excessive CO2 that the humans make in their daily human activities and industrial processes, such as, driving a car, deforestation, and factory work, these all have global effects. In the Amazon rainforest, rain has always been the key to the rich diversity of life. However, nowadays, scientists claim that due to global warming, the rains the nourish the amazons will very likely diminish. In around 2001, results were released regarding climate change, that 2 and a half degrees will increase in average global temperature, and will be the beginning of Amazon dieback. In 2015, it has been claimed that the Amazon rainforest is taking up a third less carbon than a decade ago. The Amazon would lose over a billion acres of trees, lose 20% of all the species on the planet, and lose the genetic information of plants and animals that could lead to the development of new drugs and cures for diseases. Without biodiversity and the increase of climate change, there will be a rise in sea levels, flooding, typhoon, hurricanes, and more. Losing the Amazon rainforest and the biodiversity embedded in it will not only increase global warming and climate change, but will destroy food

For example, by cutting down trees, there is an increase of exports, which stimulates the economy, thus leading to a higher GDP per capita. The population of earth rises every single day. Modern technology allows more and more people to stay alive. Land is needed to accommodate the ever growing population. Rainforest deforestation provides that land and allows houses and other types of buildings to be built in place of the trees that once occupied the land. Also, 64% of the deforestation that occurs in rainforests is due to the farming. Rainforest deforestation allows impoverished farmers to provide for their families. For every patch of land cleared of trees through deforestation, land becomes available for farmers to plant crops and carry out other agricultural practices such as raising livestock. Deforestation allows farmers to practice subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture as