Biodiversity or biological diversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. It is the diversity of and in living nature. Diversity, at its heart, implies the number of different kinds of objects, such as species.
Biodiversity
The existence of a wide range of different types of organisms in a given place at a given time.
Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems.
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Definition of biodiversity :
The spectrum of different life-forms.
Biodiversity is not just the number of species in an area. An area that contained twenty species that were all relatively common would be more diverse than one that contained nineteen rare species and one common species.
Biodiversity
The biological variety in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals.
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biodiversity Biological diversity; can be measured in terms of genetic, species, or ecosystem diversity.
biogeography The study of the distribution of plants and animals across the Earth.
biodiversity hotspot
A relatively small area with an exceptional concentration of species.
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Biodiversity. The wide diversity and interrelatedness of earth organisms based on genetic and environmental factors.
Bioenrichment. Adding nutrients or oxygen to increase microbial breakdown of pollutants.
Biofilms. See Microbial mats.
Biodiversity: The variation in life on Earth reflected at all levels, from various ecosystems and species, to the genetic variation within a species. See also ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity.
Biodiversity. See species richness
Biogenically reworked zone. The depth zone, within a sediment, that is actively burrowed by benthic organisms ...
biodiversity The genetic, species, and ecological diversity of the organisms in a given area.
biogenesis The doctrine that life originates only from preexisting life.
BioEco Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Working Group
BLS Board of Life Science
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Biodiversity: The total variation in life, including the number of species, the degree of genetic variation within species, the different types of ecosystems, and the all ecosystem functions.
Conservation biology is a discipline that brings together many fields to attempt to solve biodiversity problems. It attempts to develop practical approaches to preventing extinction of species and destruction of ecosystems.
The discovery that DNA is the information molecule of living organisms is one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the 20th Century and is critical to our understanding of inheritance, development, biodiversity and evolution.
'Biology' is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity.
International Cooperative Biodiversity Group
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Location guide to original research materials in biology - papers of historically prominent biologists
The Tree of Life: A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
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 See also: Organ, Human, Species, Animal, Plant
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