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