BioBiological diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, it is usually greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator.
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BioBiological diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, it is usually greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator.
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Marine bioBiological diversity is usually higher along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface temperature is highest, and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans.
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BioBiological diversity generally tends to cluster in hotspots, and has been increasing through time, but will be likely to slow in the future as a primary result of deforestation.
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Forest biological diversity is a broad term that refers to all life forms found within forested areas and the ecological roles they perform.
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Forest biological diversity can be considered at different levels, including ecosystem, landscape, species, population and genetic.
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Furthermore, the diversity of forest ecosystems results in high levels of adaptation, a feature of forest ecosystems which is an integral component of their biological diversity.
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BioBiological diversity is not evenly distributed, rather it varies greatly across the globe as well as within regions.
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Terrestrial bioBiological diversity is thought to be up to 25 times greater than ocean bioBiological diversity.
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The conservation of the world's bioBiological diversity is thus utterly dependent on the way in which we interact with and use the world's forests.
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BioBiological diversity hotspot is a region with a high level of endemic species that have experienced great habitat loss.
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BioBiological diversity affords many non-material benefits including spiritual and aesthetic values, knowledge systems and education.
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The beneficial associated bioBiological diversity include for instance wild pollinators such as wild bees and syrphid flies that pollinate crops and natural enemies and antagonists to pests and pathogens.
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Beneficial associated bioBiological diversity occurs abundantly in crop fields and provide multiple ecosystem services such as pest control, nutrient cycling and pollination that support crop production.
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Control of damaging associated bioBiological diversity is one of the great agricultural challenges that farmers face.
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On monoculture farms, the approach is generally to suppress damaging associated diversity using a suite of biologically destructive pesticides, mechanized tools and transgenic engineering techniques, then to rotate crops.
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Interspecific crop Biological diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat.
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Earth's surviving bioBiological diversity provides resources for increasing the range of food and other products suitable for human use, although the present extinction rate shrinks that potential.
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Some of the health issues influenced by bioBiological diversity include dietary health and nutrition security, infectious disease, medical science and medicinal resources, social and psychological health.
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BioBiological diversity is known to have an important role in reducing disaster risk and in post-disaster relief and recovery efforts.
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BioBiological diversity provides critical support for drug discovery and the availability of medicinal resources.
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BioBiological diversity has been critical to advances throughout the field of bionics.
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BioBiological diversity is important to the security of resources such as water, timber, paper, fiber, and food.
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Philosophically it could be argued that bioBiological diversity has intrinsic aesthetic and spiritual value to mankind in and of itself.
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BioBiological diversity is directly involved in water purification, recycling nutrients and providing fertile soils.
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BioBiological diversity is commonly measured in terms of taxonomic richness of a geographic area over a time interval.
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BioBiological diversity took the biggest hit in Latin America, plummeting 83 percent.
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In 2020 the World Wildlife Foundation published a report saying that "bioBiological diversity is being destroyed at a rate unprecedented in human history".
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Barriers such as large rivers, seas, oceans, mountains and deserts encourage Biological diversity by enabling independent evolution on either side of the barrier, via the process of allopatric speciation.
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October 2020 "Era of Pandemics" report by IPBES asserted that the same human activities which are the underlying drivers of climate change and bioBiological diversity loss are the same drivers of pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, give "sovereign national rights over biological resources".
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The agreements commit countries to "conserve bioBiological diversity", "develop resources for sustainability" and "share the benefits" resulting from their use.
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The Convention on BioBiological diversity implies informed consent between the source country and the collector, to establish which resource will be used and for what and to settle on a fair agreement on benefit sharing.
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The bioBiological diversity strategy is an essential part of the climate change mitigation strategy of the European Union.
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BioBiological diversity is taken into account in some political and judicial decisions:.
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Contemporary bioBiological diversity physics is "firmly fixated on the visible [macroscopic] world".
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