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477 examples of Biodiversity in a sentence

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.
It's a massive store of carbon, it's an amazing store of biodiversity, but what people don't really know is this also is a rain factory.
In addition to that, it harbors a lot of the biodiversity on Earth, and much of it we don't know about.
And Fred was lamenting the state of marine biodiversity and the fact that it was in trouble and nothing was being done about it.
Now there are a group of scientists living in Texas, working in the Gulf of Mexico who decided really as a labor of love to pull together all the knowledge they could about biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico.
And that's why biodiversity data can be so valuable.
You have on the y axis some good thing: biodiversity, numbers of orca, the greenness of your country, the water supply.
We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of water quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss.
They have a lot of biodiversity, a lot of carbon, things we want to protect.
It provides a surface for things in the ocean, and this surface, which is covered by seaweeds and other organisms in the ocean, will become enhanced marine habitat so it increases biodiversity.
At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.
Secondly, we need to create huge biodiversity reserves on the planet, and start moving them around.
This is the genetic biodiversity storehouse of corn.
And we can see biodiversity in ways that you never could have imagined.
How do we do that if we don't know the geography of biodiversity in the region, if it's so unknown to science?
So what we've been doing is using the laser-guided spectroscopy from the CAO to map for the first time the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest.
And when we take this together and scale up to the regional level, we get a completely new geography of biodiversity unknown prior to this work.
This tells us where the big biodiversity changes occur from habitat to habitat, and that's really important because it tells us a lot about where species may migrate to and migrate from as the climate shifts.
And third and final question is, how do we manage biodiversity on a planet of protected ecosystems?
After all, they're just one tiny bit of Earth's biodiversity.
Andy also talks about the fact that our ocean conservation movement really grew out of the land conservation movement, and in land conservation, we have this problem where biodiversity is at war with food production.
There's a constant tough decision that has to be made between two very important things: maintaining biodiversity and feeding people.
In the oceans, biodiversity is not at war with abundance.
When we do things that produce biodiversity, we actually get more abundance, and that's important so that we can feed people.
We also hear about the storehouse of biodiversity.
Then, I'll wrap it up with what is at the base of this capacity, of this competence of biodiversity, producing all these wonderful services: the living cell.
You know, it's a big privilege for me to be working in one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world: the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean.
Here's a data point: 1.4 percent of the entire land surface is home to 40 percent of the species of higher plants, 35 percent of the species of vertebrates, and this 1.4 percent represents the 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world, and this 1.4 percent of the entire land surface already provides for 35 percent of the ecosystem services that vulnerable people depend on.
And as you can see, the island of Mauritius where I work and where I live, belongs to one such biodiversity hotspot, and I study the unique plants on the island for their biomedical applications.
Now, these four examples I have just given you are just a very tiny reminder as to how our health and our survival are closely linked to the health and the resilience of our ecosystem, and why we should be very careful about preserving biodiversity.
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