biodiversity

• biodiversity is the variety and diversity of lifeforms in a area (number of kinds)
• biodiversity increases the stability of an ecosystem and contributes to the health of the biosphere
• biodiversity is the focus of conservation
• extinction is the process that happens when an entire species permanently disappears from the biosphere
• biodiversity is the measurement of how healthy ecosystems are
• healthy biodiversity supports high biological diversity
• stressed ecosystem may not have the capacity to support high biological diversity
• ecosystem different habitats niches species interactions
• species different kinds of organisms relationships among species
• genetic different genes and combinations of genes within the population
• ecosystem diversity is the collection of animals and plants within a particular area
• ecosystem diversity are made of interacting population and the abiotic factors that supports them
• species diversity is the measurement of the number of species which occur within a particular taxonomic level in a given geographic area
• species diversity is the number of different species and the relative abundance of each species in a biological community