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Biodiversity
The degree of variation of living organisms - animals, plants, their habitats and their genes - within a given terrestrial or marine ecosystem. This includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.
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Land cover
Biology; Biodiversity
The physical coverage of land by vegetation or the lack of it. The human use of a piece of land for a certain purpose such as irrigated agriculture or real estate development affects land cover.
Habitat fragmentation
Biology; Biodiversity
The situation when a continuous habitat has become divided into separate, often isolated small patches interspersed with other habitats. Small fragments of habitats can only support small populations ...
Ecosystem
Biology; Biodiversity
Self-regulating communities of plants and animals interacting with each other and with their natural living environment such as forests, wetlands, mountains, lakes, rivers, deserts and agricultural ...
Endangered species
Biology; Biodiversity
A species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range due to persistent factors causing their vulnerability or decline.
Ecosystem diversity
Biology; Biodiversity
The variety of ecosystems that occurs within a larger landscape, ranging from biome (the largest ecological unit) to microhabitat.
Habitat change
Biology; Biodiversity
Change in the local environmental conditions in which a particular organism lives. Habitat change can occur naturally through droughts, disease, fire, hurricanes, mudslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, ...
Biodiversity
Biology; Biodiversity
The variability among living organisms - animals, plants, their habitats and their genes - from terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are part. ...