How familiar are you with the concept of biodiversity? And why many believe it is important to protect?

Question

The term is short for biological diversity.

I don't think the term is on everyone's radar, but it seems to come up when discussing almost any serious environmental issue.

Answer 1

Biodiversity is the relationship of the number of individual organisms to the number of kinds of organisms. It's not a simple ratio and computing it can be a chore without a computer program to do so.

The more stress an ecosystem is under, the lower the biodiversity. This makes it a good measure of pollution.