Biodiversity

• Biodiversity is greater in ecosystems that provide a bigger range of different habitats, which are home to larger populations of a variety of organisms.
• Small populations are in greater danger of dying out if an ecosystem is disrupted in some way.
• Ecosystems with high levels of biodiversity help to provide the resources needed to sustain life, including human life.
• Ecosystems with higher biodiversity offer economic benefits by sustaining the resource.
• Ecosystems with higher biodiversity offer economic benefits by sustaining the resources needed for agriculture, fishing and forestry.
• Biomass is a measure of the total mass of living material in each trophic level