1 Background Biodiversity is the term used to encompass the variety of all living organisms on Earth, including their genetic diversity, species diversity and the diversity of ecosystems. Biodiversity plays an important role in ecosystem functions, which provide supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. The services that humans derive from ecosystems include food, fuel, clothing, structural materials, medicines and genetic resources. The depletion of biodiversity will have profound
Tropical forests are considered the richest forest on earth because of high number of biological communities that home of a large number of biodiversity (Baraloto et al, 2003). These forests provide ecosystem services such as species conservation, soil erosion prevention and habitat preservation of plants and animals (Armenteras et al 2009). Over-exploitation of these forest has resulted the rapid loss of forests cover which recognized as one of the environmental and economic problems around world
Biodiversity Define Biodiversity; Biodiversity is an ecosystem or certain habitat where there range of different animal species coexist with each other. (Biodiversity causes a healthy eco-system) ‘’The richer the diversity of life, the greater the opportunity for medical discoveries, economic development, and adaptive responses to such new challenges as climate change.’’(The Convention about Life on Earth, 2014) 1) Prevent Extinction; the larger the variety of animals that exist in the world the
Values of biodiversity Biodiversity is a gift that has been bestowed by nature upon all the inhabitants of this beautiful planet called Earth . The interdependence and inter linkage between all organisms of the ecosystem makes value of biodiversity indispensable in the life of humans and other organisms. Biodiversity provides twofold benefit to inhabitants of earth. Firstly, biodiversity is directly used as a source for food, fibre, fuel and other extractable resources. Secondly, biodiversity plays an
starting discussing biodiversity of China, the term ‘biodiversity’ needs to be defined. Biodiversity is variety and variability of all life forms and the ecosystems that they live in, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems, from which form ecological complexes together. Biodiversity includes mainly three levels of organizations, which are genes, species and ecosystem levels. Those components interact with each other and with their environment. The value of biodiversity can indicate
Does anyone know what actually biodiversity means? Well, no worries when I’m here. Biodiversity is another name for the variety of all living things on Earth (e.g. plants, animals, insects, and microorganisms as well as their interactions and their ecosystems.) Biodiversity comes in variety from within a species, among a species and within an ecosystem. Biodiversity is an essential part of life, and us humans are leaving no chance of destroying what we call “Earth”. We are using up more resources
Introduction: Biodiversity is important for all living organism including plants and animals. Without biodiversity, there would be no balance between organism and their environment. Biodiversity helps to maintain the balance of nature to sustain all life on earth; one species will not overpower another because of the effect of biodiversity. Not only does biodiversity maintain the balance of nature it is also used to indicate health in the aquatic community. Dissolved-oxygen is measured in the aquatic
Biodiversity is stand for the variety of life at all levels of biological organization. It includes diversity with species, ecosystem and variability among living organisms from all sources. According to ‘the strategic plan on biodiversity 2011-2020’, Biodiversity is living in harmony with nature that biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering beneficial essential for all people. Not only biodiversity is
Biodiversity affects everyone. The losses of biodiversity impinge the environment and diminish its ability to provide for the people now and in the days to come (IAIA 2005). It is well established that biodiversity provides us with several benefits and gives indispensable services. Biodiversity is a source of goods such as food, medicinal drugs and construction materials. It is fundamental for the maintenance of environmental processes and the systems that support life on earth. It is also needed
The definition of biodiversity is “diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment” (“Biodiversity”). This definition in other terms, is all the organisms in one location. The location could be the forest, a lake, everywhere you look from. It’s diverse to the things you can’t see to the eye to the biggest elephant. Biodiversity is a very important aspect to life. More diverse environments means more natural sustainability for all the organisms living there. It also means they
Biodiversity is “all the different kinds of living organisms within a given area”. This means any place where there are living organisms. There are two main types of biodiversity, tropical and temperate. Tropical regions are hot all of the time and are the most biodiverse. Temperate regions only get hot during the summer and have cold winters, they are less biodiverse. Every place has biodiversity weather it be in the water or on land. Water and tropical regions have are the most biodiverse areas
The term ‘biodiversity’ refers to the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, the genetic information they contain and the ecosystems they form. Biodiversity is usually studied at three levels, which are: I. Genetic diversity. Each species is made up of individuals that have their own particular genetic composition meaning that a species may have different populations with different genetic compositions. Simply put, genetic diversity is the motley of genes within
and ecosystem. Biodiversity is the variety and variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic eco¬systems and the ecological complexes; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems (CBD 1992). The term biodiversity, the short form of biological diversity, was coined by Walter G. Rosen in 1985. The fundamental to ecologically sustainable development is conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. An environment
Biodiversity is referred to variety of animal, plants and living things in a particular area. Most people defined biodiversity by species. Species is referred to a group of interbreeding organisms that do not ordinarily breed with members of other groups and give rise to fertile offspring. Biodiversity is extremely important in our daily life where biodiversity provide human with foods, oxygen and medicines. Most medical discoveries are used to cure illness and increase the life span based on the
Biodiversity can be defined as the many different animal and plant species in an ecosystem. Biodiversity is very important as humans currently do not know what specific species are required for us to survive, as well as a high amount of biodiversity will allow ecosystems to stay healthy. Some threats to biodiversity can be moving animals from their natural habitats, moving those animals to a new and unfamiliar habitat, and decreasing the amount of land that the animals are able to roam in. Some ecosystems
Loss of biodiversity Introduction Biodiversity is the variability among living organism from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, inter alia, and other aquatic ecosystems and ecological complexes they are part of. they include the diversity within species, between species and ecosystems. Biodiversity also refers to the abundance of different species living within a given region. It showcases the wealth of biological resources available to us. It sustains the natural area that is comprised
Introduction: Biodiversity is the basis of agriculture. Agricultural production practices need to change. They need to become increasingly sustainable at the same time as meeting societal goals of access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food (Baulcombe et al., 2009; IAASTD, 2008; World Bank, 2007; Nellemann et al., 2009). The Declaration of the World Food Summit on Food Security (FAO, 2009a) stated that not only should there be increased investment in agriculture to meet the challenge of achieving
Economy through Biodiversity Biological diversity or biodiversity is the collection of different species of organisms (monerans, protistas, fungi, plants, and animals) and the ecosystem containing these species (Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 1997). In Catibog-Sinha and Heaney (2006), biodiversity is defined by the World Wild Fund for Nature as “the wealth of life on earth, the millions of plants, animals and microorganisms, the genes they contain, and the intricate ecosystems
There has been a noted decline in biodiversity across all regions of the world, which includes faunal diversity and floral diversity (Holmes, 2012). Biodiversity is important in maintaining the functioning of all existing ecosystems, which then renders certain ecosystem services to all living things (Myers et al., 2000). In trying to combat the issue of biodiversity loss, various studies have been undertaken to identify the best way to conserve as well debates on what is worth conserving more than
everything in our power to keep our biodiversity alive in this world. The loss and extinction of biodiversity may be prevented through the responsibility of human beings. This paper aims to explain what biodiversity is and its importance to our world, how it gets lost and extinct, how it will affect the world around us, how we can prevent it from happening, and how we can sustain biodiversity. What is biodiversity? Anup Shah (2008) states that biodiversity is the variety of life on earth (para