Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Resilience Flashcards
understanding the diverse forms of biodiversity and their respective benefits
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Biodiversity
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The variety of biological factors in an ecosystem including ecosystem, species and genetic diversity
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Community/Ecosystem diversity
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variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere
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Species Diversity
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Number of different species
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Genetic Diversity
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total of different forms of genes present in a particular species
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Biodiversity Benefits
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Medicine (animal testing), Agriculture (Plant breeding), Ecosystem resilience (Increasing presence of a keystone species)
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Resilience
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Describes a natural or human system’s ability to recover after a disturbance
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Ecosystems services
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Benefits provided by ecosystems to humans
