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An example of the biodiversity of fungi in a forest in North Saskatchewan (in this photo, there are also leaf lichens and mosses).. Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth.
The Directorate General of Nature Resources and Ecosystem Conservation (Indonesian: Direktorat Jenderal Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam dan Ekosistem, also known as Ditjen KSDAE) is a directorate general under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
The 17 countries identified as megadiverse by Conservation International. A megadiverse country is one of a group of nations that harbours the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species.
In ecology, beta diversity (β-diversity or true beta diversity) is the ratio between regional and local species diversity.The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker [1] together with the terms alpha diversity (α-diversity) and gamma diversity (γ-diversity).
The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. A genus contains one or more species. Minor intermediate ranks are not shown. A species (pl.: species) is a population of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. [1]
Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarpous, [2] apparently bisexual (but actually mostly cryptically unisexual) flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes or clusters.
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.Its purpose is to provide a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have been previously described or related species.
Columba oenas, the stock dove, is the type species of the genus Columba.. In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens). [1]