Complementary to Marcus Ng's article:
We Are Not Alone! A Rumination on Biodiversity and the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity
here are some representative photographs of the Museum's exhibits.
Biodiversity: The number of different species of organisms in a particular environment. See species richness.
· Biodiversity = variety of species
· Bioluminescence = the ability of some organisms to produce light by chemical reactions taking place within their tissues
· Bicuspid = pointed on both sides ...
Adds biodiversity
Teaming with nitrifying bacteria, worms, and other beneficial organisms
Tonga Branch ...
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
Betta tussyae, Schaller 1985
A male B. tussyae. Picture by Horst Linke.
(04/22/2010) The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones.
324 millions - comes from the Australian Government's 'Maintaining Australia's Biodiversity Hotspots' programĀ.
2, Physiology, Biodiversity, Molecular & Biology. G. Personne, P. Sorgeloos, O. Roels and E. Jaspers (Eds). Universa Press, Wetteren, Belgium, pp 55-82.
Dobbeleir, J.; Adam, N.; Bossuyt, E.; Bruggeman, E.; Sorgeloos, P. (1980).
As some of you already know, we are heading towards a modern biodiversity crisis.
There are often significant areas of biodiversity, and species endemism present particularly in rainforests and dry deciduous forests.
Because it has been widely introduced in many places, and because it is such an aggressive predator, the sharptooth catfish is an underestimated threat to native fish biodiversity worldwide.
There may well be advantages to waiting between three months and a year, with the tank running in normal mode (full circulation, heating, lighting, etc), before adding other life forms in order to allow the biodiversity naturally present on the rock ...
Which method is for you all depends on; how much you want to be involved, how much room you have for equipment ( or lack of ), how much money you wish to spend, the overall 'biodiversity' of life within the tank, ...
It's too bad most of the lower-food-chain things turn into flying insects at some point in time; this limits the biodiversity of the overall system.
 See also: Species, Water, Fish, Aquarium, Freshwater
  
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