How Do We Conserve Biodiversity? 1. Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation Bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion can be broad­ly cat­e­go­rized into two approach­es: In […] [...]

sources. 2. Broadly Utilitarian Arguments Ecosys­tem Ser­vices Pro­vid­ed by Bio­di­ver­si­ty: Bio­di­ver­si­ty under­pins essen­tial nat­ur­al ser­vices that main­tain eco­log­i­cal bal­ance: Oxy­gen […] [...]

The accel­er­at­ed rates of species extinc­tion today are pri­mar­i­ly due to human activ­i­ties. These caus­es are often referred to as […] [...]

Key Question Does the num­ber of species in a com­mu­ni­ty mat­ter to ecosys­tem func­tion­ing? Ecol­o­gists have debat­ed this for years, […] [...]

Key Observation by Alexander von Humboldt Species rich­ness increas­es with an increase in the explored area, but only up to […] [...]

Latitudinal Gradients Bio­di­ver­si­ty is uneven­ly dis­trib­uted across the globe, with notice­able pat­terns in species diver­si­ty. Key Trend: Species diver­si­ty decreas­es […] [...]

Intro­duc­tion: If an alien were to vis­it Earth, the first thing that would amaze him is the enor­mous diver­si­ty of […] [...]

Definition Eco­log­i­cal pyra­mids are graph­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the rela­tion­ship between organ­isms at dif­fer­ent troph­ic lev­els in terms of num­ber, bio­mass, […] [...]

Energy Source and Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) The Sun is the pri­ma­ry ener­gy source for all ecosys­tems (except deep-sea hydrother­mal ecosys­tems). Of […] [...]

Definition of Decomposition Decom­po­si­tion: The process of break­ing down com­plex organ­ic mat­ter into sim­pler inor­gan­ic sub­stances like car­bon diox­ide, water, […] [...]