Essays on Biodiversity

“””BIODIVERSITY”Biodiversity, as defined by E.O. Wilson, “is meant to be all inclusive-it’s the genetic based variation of living organisms at all levels, from thevariety of genes in populations of single species, through species, on up to thearray of natural ecosystems.” This includes plants, animals, insects, fungi,bacteria, and all microorganisms. All of these things create what…

 Birds in the Hawaiian ecosystem are facing extinction due to degradation and loss of their habitat from effects of animals such as the feral ungulates. These animals eat native plants and destroy ground cover through their hooves and grazing activities. According to the bird channel website, there has been a 64% reduction in the birds’…

The significance of Van Mahotsav for bio-diversity People of India have many festivals related to trees. One such festival is Van Mahotsav or the Forest Festival. Van Mahotsav was started in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create enthusiasm among masses for forest conservation and planting trees….

Describe Natural selection takes the raw material of variations with a population and moulds it over a long period of time into a population that can compete most effectively with other species. This selection will favor the fittest individuals in a species to fit a particular biological niche. Any given environment will have a large…

The patchwork of isolated islands, the tropical location of the country, and the once extensive areas of rainforest have resulted in high species diversity in some groups of organisms and a very high level of endemism. There are five major and at least five minor centers of endemism, ranging in size from Luzon, the largest…

‘Define Biodiversity and using examples, explain why it is important’ Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth. A fuller definition is given in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) from the 1992 Earth summit: ‘Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological…

On February 20, 2003, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Dale Bottrell from the Department of Entomology made a presentation on biodiversity. Biodiversity in simplest terms is variation amongst species, and, as Dr. Bottrell pointed out, it is a natural phenomenon which has its own benefits and drawbacks within the realm of the biosphere. He began his presentation with…

KOHINOOR BUSINESS SCHOOL Business Research Management Research Report On Afforestation Process in Lonavala & Khandala Guided By: Submitted by: Prof. Saravan Krishnamurthy Remya . K. Nair(TL) -9232 Ashwani Chaudhary -9207 Anuj Gupta -9206 Priyank Gupta -9228 Nishant Rana -9226 Vivek Jaiswal -9259 Acknowledgement We are heartily thankful to our Business Research Methodology faculty, “Prof. Saravan…

Marine Biodiversity is one of the assets of the Philippines, and because of this, the country bear the title of the “Centre of Marine biodiversity”. But as timed passed by, little by little, this asset is being disturbed because of human deeds, and if the authorities didn’t do something, the once known asset may turn…

To understand this huge array of species, a simple classification system is used to produce some order out of chaos. Example: this class has persons Of all sorts Of shapes, sizes, color, eye color, finger shape & size, etc…. What criteria would you use to separate us all out? HISTORY Historically, we group things according…