Give an account of Biodiversity in India?
India is one of the 10th mega biodiversity countries of the world because of the presence of a variety of climatic conditions prevailing on different ecological habitats ranging from tropical, subtropical, and temperate. So far as the biodiversity of India is concerned, it involves about 47,000 plants and 81,000 animal species. India occupies 2−42−4% of the total land area of the world but in terms of biodiversity, India contributes about 10−3510−35% of global diversity. To India a large number of species are native. About 5000 species of flowering plants belonging to 141genera and 47 families have originated in India. There are 6262% of amphibian species and 5050% of lizards endemic to our country with a large number in the Western Ghats. India is an origin place of 166 species of crop plants and 320 species of wild relatives of the cultivated crop. India is rich in marine biodiversity lying along a coastline of 7500 km. Out of 25, there would be two hotspots located in India, these are the Western Ghats and the Eastern Himalayas.
