While most research on the relationship between ecosystem diversity and stability has focused on species richness, it is variation in species composition that provides the mechanistic basis to ...

Although many conservationists believe biodiversity is intrinsically valuable, the protection of biodiversity has also been ...

The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

Biodiversity includes two other components as well- genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity. While people are generally most familiar with multicellular organisms such as plants and animals ...

Over time, the benefits of greater tree and shrub diversity became even more apparent, suggesting that their richness contributes to long-term ecosystem functioning. However, the study also noted ...

We can’t solve problems as dire as climate change and biodiversity loss with the same kind of thinking that got us into ...

Biological diversity is often understood in terms of ... between varieties of crops and breeds of livestock — and the variety of ecosystems (lakes, forest, deserts, agricultural landscapes ...

Species diversity is made up of two factors - the number of different species in an ecosystem and the proportion of each species in the ecosystem. These represent the richness of the species and ...

Microbial research suggests that biodiversity does not always increase ecosystem stability. Although many conservationists believe biodiversity is intrinsically valuable, the protection of ...