Biological Diversity Open Access Journals

It is the variability of life on Earth, altogether its forms and every one its interactions. If that sounds bewilderingly broad, that’s because it's . Biodiversity is that the most complex feature of our planet and it's the foremost vital. “Without biodiversity, there's no future for humanity,” says Prof David Macdonald, at Oxford University .

 

The term was coined in 1985 – a contraction of “biological diversity” – but the large global biodiversity losses now becoming apparent represent a crisis equalling – or quite possibly surpassing – global climate change .

 

More formally, biodiversity is comprised of several levels, starting with genes, then individual species, then communities of creatures and eventually entire ecosystems, like forests or coral reefs, where life interplays with the physical environment. These myriad interactions have made Earth habitable for billions of years.

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