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Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
Description
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Biodiversity - the variety of genes, species, and ecosystems
- Conservation - ethical use and protection of valuable natural resources (e.g. trees, minerals, wildlife, water)
- Ecosystem - a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- Ecosystem services - benefits people obtain from ecosystems (four categories: supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural)
- Richness - the number of species in an ecological community, landscape, or region
- Pollinators - animals that help plants reproduce by moving pollen from male flowers to female flowers
- Pollution - the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment (e.g. chemicals, particles, noise, heat, light)
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