BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Biodiversity, short for "biological diversity," refers to the variety of life on Earth. This includes the diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems. It is a concept that captures the richness and variability of all living organisms-plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms-as well as the ecosystems they form and the ecological processes they participate in. Biodiversity is not uniformly distributed across the globe. Some areas, such as tropical rainforests and coral reef...