Biodiversity

• Biodiversity


  The variety of all the different species of organisms on earth
• Deforestation


  The destruction of tropical forests to provide land for other uses
• Deforestation


  Reducing biodiversity
• The world supports a huge range of living organisms including thousands of different plants, animals, bacteria and fungi
• Biodiversity


  • Can refer to the variety of species in an individual ecosystem, such as the Amazon rainforest
  • Is important for ecosystems as species depend on each other and help maintain the environment, e.g. decomposers
  • A high level of biodiversity makes an ecosystem more stable as it is less dependent on one species
• Humans are having a negative effect on biodiversity through deforestation
• Reasons for deforestation


  • Providing land for rice fields
  • Providing land for grazing cattle
  • Growing crops for biofuels