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measuring biodiversity
How Manú National Park in Peru protects biodiversity
What is biodiversity, and why is it important?
Yellowstone National Park Ka‘u silversword
Why are rainforests so important?
biodiversity loss terrestrial hot spots of biodiversity
How is biodiversity good for the economy?
Explore with German biologist Matthias Kopfmüller and his team to document one of the world's rich biodiversity in the waters off Indonesia
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How Manú National Park in Peru protects biodiversity
Learn how and why inventories of the high level of reptile and amphibian biodiversity...
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What is biodiversity, and why is it important?
Overview of how scientists measure biodiversity.
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Why are rainforests so important?
Rainforests are where the ancestors of humans first evolved—and where our closest...
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How is biodiversity good for the economy?
Learn how biodiversity is good for the economy.
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Explore with German biologist Matthias Kopfmüller and his team to document one of the world's rich biodiversity in the waters off Indonesia
Learn about the rich biodiversity in the waters off Indonesia, as well as conservation...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Georgette Douwma/Getty Images
The unique animal life of the Galapagos Islands
Speciation and biological diversity in Galapagos Islands ecosystems.
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measuring biodiversity
Ways to measure biodiversity. Although examining counts of species is perhaps the...
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Yellowstone National Park
Morning Glory Pool hot spring, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, northwestern...
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Ka‘u silversword
The Ka‘u silversword (Argyroxiphium kauense) is an endangered plant found...
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biodiversity loss
The primary drivers of biodiversity loss are influenced by the exponential growth...
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terrestrial hot spots of biodiversity
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