biodiversity








noun

  1. diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment.

noun

  1. the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species in their natural environments, which is the aim of conservationists concerned about the indiscriminate destruction of rainforests and other habitats
n.

also bio-diversity, by 1988, from bio- + diversity.

  1. The number, variety, and genetic variation of different organisms found within a specified geographic region.

A term that describes the number of different species that live within a particular ecosystem.

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