Definition Of Earth S Biodiversity

Was conceived by walter g rosen.

Definition of earth s biodiversity. The national forum on biodiversity. Rosen represented the nrc nas throughout the planning stages of the project. Join britannica s publishing partner program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work. Species richness the number of species in a given area represents a single but important metric that is valuable as the common currency of the diversity of life but it must be integrated with other metrics to fully capture biodiversity.

Our editors will review what you ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. The loss of biodiversity as a result of human activity and various methods aimed at preventing this loss are discussed in the articles conservation and biodiversity loss to assist in the daunting challenge of protecting species a number of biologically rich but threatened regions containing high numbers of endemic species have been. There are many measures of biodiversity. A cluster of online glossaries about biodiversity.

Wilson the contracted form biodiversity was coined by w. The cbd definition is the internationally accepted definition of biodiversity. 1985 according to edward o. Much of the land identified as important for biodiversity also stores a lot of carbon underlining the connection between conservation and climate goals.

Biodiversity or biological diversity is the sum of all the different species of plants animals fungi and microbial organisms that live on earth including the various ecosystems in which they live on. Biodiversity conservation provides substantial benefits to meet immediate human needs such as clean consistent water flows protection from floods and storms and a stable climate.