Biodiversity: Review

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  • Shikha Gupta, Prof. Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan, Prof. Shishira Kanta Behera

Abstract

Biodiversity includes plants, animals, Bacteria, fungi, and a number of species that live on the Earth. Ear threatened with extinction by human activities because earth's biodiversity is so abundant that many of the organisms are yet to be discovered, jeopardizing Earth's wonderful biodiversity. Biodiversity on Earth is not evenly distributed and the tropics are strongest. These rainforest ecosystems cover fewer than 10% of the surface of the world and contain approximately 90% of all species worldwide. In the western Pacific, where sea surface temperatures are lowest, and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans, marine biodiversity is generally greatest. For species diversity, there are latitudinal gradients. In theory, biodiversity continues to accumulate on hotspots and grows over time, but in the future it will probably slow down. Typical causes of mass extinction are rapid environmental changes. It is estimated that more than 99.9% of all terrestrial creatures, including 5 billion species, are extinct. Estimates of the current species on Earth range in the 10-14 million range, with approximately 1.2 million documented and more than 86% not described yet. Recently, scientists have confirmed in May 2016 that there are actually just one-thousandth of a percentage of an estimated 1 trillions of species on earth.

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2020-09-30

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Shikha Gupta, Prof. Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan, Prof. Shishira Kanta Behera. (2020). Biodiversity: Review. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 9(3), 638 - 644. Retrieved from http://www.modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/262

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