Introduction
- Biodiversity or biological diversity embraces the variability within and between all living organism from all sources like MO, plants animals and ecological system which they inhabit.
- It starts with genes and manifests itself as organism, population species and communities which give life to ecosystem, and land scape and ultimately the biosphere.
Types of biodiversity
- Ecosystem diversity
- Species diversity
- Genetic diversity
Causes of biodiversity degradation:
- Habitat destruction
- Over exploitation
- Climate change
- Invasive alien species
- Loss of pollinators
- Environmental degradation
- Loss of genetic variability