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  1. Jul 4, 2024 · Biodiversity loss is a decrease in the number, genetic variability, and variety of species and biological communities in a given area. It can result from natural or human-driven disturbances, and it can have serious consequences for ecosystem functioning, human well-being, and global biosphere.

  2. Jul 4, 2024 · Economic and societal effects. Biodiversity loss affects economic systems and human society. Humans rely on various plants, animals, and other organisms for food, building materials, and medicines, and their availability as commodities is important to many cultures.

  3. Jun 26, 2024 · Conservation, study of the loss of Earth’s biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire planet Earth, including its ecosystems, species, populations, and genes.

  4. Jun 28, 2024 · Biodiversity is affected by climate change, with negative consequences for human well-being, but biodiversity, through the ecosystem services it supports, also makes an important contribution to both climate-change mitigation and adaptation.

  5. Jul 3, 2024 · Tropical forest degradation from selective logging, fire and edge effects is a major driver of carbon and biodiversity loss 1,2,3, with annual rates comparable to those of deforestation 4.

  6. Jun 24, 2024 · When habitat loss is low, habitat fragmentation promotes coexistence by suppressing competitively dominant species, while habitat fragmentation at high levels of habitat loss can shape many ...

  7. Jun 26, 2024 · Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement to fill knowledge gaps, but are rarely able to engage with sufficiently large and diverse groups of specialists.

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