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  2. Biodiversity Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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    The meaning of BIODIVERSITY is biological diversity in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals. How to use biodiversity in a sentence. Did you know?

  3. Biodiversity | Definition & Facts | Britannica

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    What is the definition of biodiversity? Biodiversity, also called biological diversity, is the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth. A common measure of this variety, called species richness, is the count of species in an area.

  4. What is biodiversity? | Pages | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

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    Biodiversity is all the different kinds of life you’ll find in one area—the variety of animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world.

  5. Biodiversity Definition “Biodiversity is the variation among living organisms from different sources including terrestrial, marine and desert ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are a part.”

  6. Biodiversity - National Geographic Society

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    Biodiversity refers to all the different kinds of living organisms within a given area, including plants, animals, fungi and other living things. It includes everything from towering redwood trees to tiny, single-cell algae that are impossible to see without a microscope. Kinds of Biodiversity.

  7. Biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and phylogenetic diversity. [1] Diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth.

  8. Biodiversity includes not only the world's species with their unique evolutionary histories, but also genetic variability within and among populations of species and the distribution of species across local habitats, ecosystems, landscapes, and whole continents or oceans.

  9. Biodiversity is a term which describes every living organism within a single ecosystem or habitat, including numbers and diversity of species and all environmental aspects such as temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels and climate.

  10. What Is Biodiversity? - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural...

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    Biodiversity — short for biological diversity — is the variety of all living things and their interactions. Biodiversity changes over time as extinction occurs and new species evolve. Scientists often speak of three levels of diversity: species, genetic, and ecosystem diversity.

  11. BIODIVERSITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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    BIODIVERSITY definition: 1. the number and types of plants and animals that exist in a particular area or in the world…. Learn more.