What is biodiversity? What will happen if biodiversity of an area is not preserved? Mention one effect of it.

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What is biodiversity? What will happen if biodiversity of an area is not preserved? Mention one effect of it.


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The variety of life forms found in a particular region forms its biodiversity.
If biodiversity of an area is not preserved, it will result in:
(i) natural calamities such as floods, forest fires and hurricanes.
(ii) soil erosion and desertification because of deforestation.
(iii) large-scale habitat losses and extinction of vulnerable animal and plant species.
(iv) sudden climatic changes and instability in the functioning of the ecosystem.
The effect of biodiversity loss would be disturbance of ecosystem balance.

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Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of species of plants, animals and microorganisms in a natural habitat within a particular environment or existence of genetic variation within a species. Biodiversity of an area is the number of species or range of different life forms found there. Forests are ‘biodiversity hotspots’. 

Every living being is dependent on another living being. It is a chain. If biodiversity is not maintained, the links of the chain go missing. If one organism goes missing, this will affect all the living beings who are dependent on it.

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