Biodiversity Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Biodiversity.

  • 3 Student Essays
  • 9 Encyclopedia Articles
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Study Pack

The Biodiversity Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (9)

2,085 words, approx. 7 pages
Biodiversity Biodiversity is the term applied to the variety of organisms that occupy a given region. This includes all organisms that live in the region, from microscopic protists to large mammals. T... Read more
2,800 words, approx. 10 pages
Biodiversity Biodiversity exists at three interrelated levels: species diversity, genetic diversity, and community-level diversity. When we talk about plant biodiversity, we refer to the full range of... Read more
1,750 words, approx. 6 pages
The Emergence of Biodiversity as an Issue of Importance Overview Biodiversity, sometimes measured by the total number of different plant and animal species in a given area, emerged as an issue of grea... Read more
2,495 words, approx. 9 pages
Biodiversity Biodiversity is the total richness of biological variation. Usually the scope of biodiversity is considered to range from the genetic variation of individual organisms within and among po... Read more
907 words, approx. 4 pages
Biodiversity Biodiversity is the total richness of biological variation. A result of genetic diversity. The scope of biodiversity ranges from the genetic variation of individual organisms within and a... Read more
2,337 words, approx. 8 pages
Biodiversity Biodiversity is an ecological notion that refers to the richness of biological types at a range of hierarchical levels, including: (1) genetic diversity within species, (2) the richness... Read more
1,252 words, approx. 5 pages
Marine Ecology and Biodiversity Understanding the nature of ocean life and the patterns of its diversity represents a difficult challenge. Not only are there technical difficulties involved with stu... Read more
2,225 words, approx. 8 pages
Biodiversity Life on earth began as bacterial cells at least 4,000 million years ago, and it has—with notable, but rare, catastrophic declines in diversity subsequently—expanded, evolved... Read more
83,651 words, approx. 279 pages
The term “biodiversity”—short for biological diversity—was first used in the 1980s by scientists to refer to the richness of biological variation on Earth or within a particula... Read more