In simple words, biodiversity refers to the variation of life forms in the ecosystem, right from the various species of bacteri a to the large blue whales. In other words, biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment. Interest...
In simple words, biodiversity refers to the variation of life forms in the ecosystem, right from the various species of bacteria to the large blue whales. In other words, biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment. ...
Biodiversity in simple words, means the vast variety of plant and animal life including microorganisms existing in any region. Civilization of humans, unplanned urbanization and industrialization has degraded the environment. Consequently the existence of many plants and animal species including humans has...
many jobs and livelihoods depend on ecosystems and biodiversity. In a companion article, I’ve writtenabout the importance of biodiversity: how humans rely on biodiversity and ecosystems for the food we consume, for medicines we use to improve our health, for materials we need to make clothes, ...
These reduced and simple definitions, which embrace many different parameters, have been much elaborated and debated in the last three decades (seeSection on Definition of Biodiversity); on this definition hangs the outcome of important scientific considerations, international agreements, conventions, conse...
Every other animal living on this planet, of course, is similarly dependent. But in one crucial way, we are different. We can change not just the numbers, but the very anatomy of the animals and plants that live around us. We acquired that ability, doubtless almost unconsciously, some ten...
In simple terms, a model is a set of mathematical equations (e.g., y = a + bx), or logical rules (e.g., if x > c then y = 1), that link a biodiversity variable of interest (the 'y' in these examples; referred to variously as the 'dependent', 'response' or 'outcome' ...
humanity's Ecological Footprint is over 23% larger than the planet can regenerate. (http://www.footprintnetwork.org/) In other words, it now takes more than one year and two months for the Earth to regenerate what we use in a single year. We maintain this overshoot by liquidating the ...
In other words, we might close the yield gap, but further widen the sustainability gap (sensu Fischer et al., 2007). It has long been recognised that productive land-use and the practices we adopt to achieve this, are strong drivers of biodiversity loss (e.g. Carson, 1963). But there...
In a simple community of two plant species A and B, removal (loss) of Species A can lead to an increase in the biomass produced by Species B (i.e., there is competition and redundancy in the community); no change in the biomass produced by Species B (as may happen if there is com...