![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More formally, biodiversity is comprised of several levels, starting with genes, then individual species, then communities of creatures and finally entire ecosystems, such as forests or coral reefs, where life interplays with the physical environment. The term was coined in 1985 – a contraction of “biological diversity” – but the huge global biodiversity losses now becoming apparent represent a crisis equalling – or quite possibly surpassing – climate change. “Without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity,” says Prof David Macdonald, at Oxford University. Biodiversity is the most complex feature of our planet and it is the most vital. If that sounds bewilderingly broad, that’s because it is. It is the variety of life on Earth, in all its forms and all its interactions.
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