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Understanding Biodiversity's Master Plan

The document discusses biodiversity as a crucial strategy for creating stable ecosystems, highlighting various types of diversity including genetic, species, ecological, and physical diversity. It explains how global and local conditions, such as temperature, moisture, and soil quality, significantly influence biodiversity. The interaction between the living and non-living worlds is emphasized, illustrating their profound interdependence.

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Understanding Biodiversity's Master Plan

The document discusses biodiversity as a crucial strategy for creating stable ecosystems, highlighting various types of diversity including genetic, species, ecological, and physical diversity. It explains how global and local conditions, such as temperature, moisture, and soil quality, significantly influence biodiversity. The interaction between the living and non-living worlds is emphasized, illustrating their profound interdependence.

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Biodiversity & Nautre Conservation

Prepared By
Md. Shafiqul Islam
Assistant Professor,ISD, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
Nature’s master plan
Biodiversity is one of nature’s important strategy to create stable ecosystem.
Here is nature’s master plan
Genetic diversity: the variety of genome
• Individual diversity-the variety of genes present in the members of a species
• Species diversity-variety of species in a specific place
• Body plan diversity-the variety in phyla
• Size diversity-the right size for the right job
Ecological diversity: the variety of ways organisms live together, producing
visibly different habitats
• Ecosystem diversity-variety of physical settings, forests
• Habitat diversity-the variety of biological communities
• Functional diversity-the variety of functions, trophic levels.
Nature’s master plan
Physical diversity: the variety in climatic areas, biomes, geology and so on. Although not directly part of
the living stock, these factors have nonetheless a profound influence on biodiversity.
Global eco-region:a number of physical factors determine the type and quality of the world’s major
ecosystem (tundra, taiga, borel forest desert rainforest etc).
• Temperature-the surface of the earth curves away from the equator
• Season-the earth rotates on a 23.5 degree angle with the sun, causing the seasons
• Rainfall-due to rotation of the Earth, rain does not fall equitably everywhere. Most rainfalls over the
tropics
• Evaporation- evaporation increase rapidly with temperature
• Soil-the quality of soil affects the plants that growth there, but plants in turn affect the quality of the
soil
Local conditions: within the global ecosystems, an enormous variety of conditions prevails, affecting
biodiversity. The local physical conditions mentioned below affect one another locally. Moisture and
temperature promote plant growth, which affect shelter
• Temperature-the local temperature
• Moisture-moisture is collected on leaves, in the soil, in the subsoil
• Wind-wind can damage plants, lower the temperature and reduce moisture
• Slope- the slope of the land makes soil erode more quickly, resulting in poor soils uphill
• Aspect-shaded slopes are moist promoting ferns and shade loving plants, whereas sunlight slopes are
dry, promoting drought resistant plants.
• Substrate-the local geology can change in rapid ways. the substrate may provide niches for shelter
for animals and so on.
Nature’s master plan
In the above summary of biodiversity, the physical
world has been included with the living world, which
is not usually done. However , the physical
environment has a major influence on biodiversity,
and the living and non living worlds interact in such
profound ways, that it is not possible to separate
them. an increase in evapotranspiration of 10x leads
to an increase in productivity of 40x.
Plant productivity as a function of evapo-transpiration
Thank You

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