What is biodiversity? Why has it become important recently?
Biodiversity: The term biodiversity was coined by W.G. Rosen in 1985. It is the occurrence of different kinds of organisms and the complete range of varieties adapted to different climates, environments, and areas being constituents of food chains and food webs of biotic interrelationships. Biodiversity refers to the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems of a region. Biodiversity differs from place to place. Significance of biodiversity: As there is a continuous loss of biodiversity due to increasing population, resource consumption, urbanization, and pollution, it is important to conserve it. The basic reason for concern is that biodiversity is being lost even before it attains its size. Loss of biodiversity would check the evolutionary capability of biota to cope up with an environmental loss.
