advantages of biodiversity

Biodiversity - Biodiversity refers to the totality of genes, species and ecosystems of a region. Biodiversity differs from place to place. The living world abounds with enormous biodiversity..

Biodiversity refers to the totality of genes, species and ecosystems of a region. Biodiversity differs from place to place. The living world abounds with enormous biodiversity..

The word 'resource' means supplying a material generally held in reserve. The common natural resources include energy, air, water, land, minerals, microorganisms plants and animal..

Threats to Biodiversity - Habitat loss and fragmentation, disturbance and introduction of alien species pore greatest threats to biodiversity. Exotic species have large impacts in island ecosyste..

International Efforts For Conserving Biodiversity - The earth summit held in 1992 at Rio de Janeiro resulted in a convention on biodiversity, which came into force on 29 t h December 1993. The key objectives of the conservation are: i) Conservation of biological diversity ii) Su..

Gradients of Biodiversity - Biodiversity varies with change in latitude or altitude. The diversity increases as we move from high to low latitudes (i.e., from poles of equator). In the temperate region, the climate is severe with short growing period for plants while in tropical..

Levels of Biodiversity - Biological diversity includes 3 hierarchical levels. a) Genetic diversity b) Species diversity c) Community and ecosystem diversi..

Systematic work on identifying and naming the many species has been in progress for the last 250 -300 years. But the known and described number of species of all organisms on the earth is between 1.7 and 1.8 million which is just about 15% of the total number existing. New species are being discove..

Biological diversity includes 3 hierarchical levels. a) Genetic diversity b) Species diversity c) Community and ecosystem diversi..

Summary - Wild life and forests make our biotic resources Wild life maintains food chains and natural cycles, has immense value as gene banks for breeding programmes. Although creation and extinction of species is a natural phenomenon, elimination of species has become extremely rapid during the la..