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Why is having biodiversity among species so important to the planet ?
The biodiversity found in genes, species, ecosystems, and ecosystem process is vital to sustaining life on earth.
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The variety of the earths species, the genes they contain , the ecosystem in which they live, and the ecosystem processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling that sustain all life
biodiversity
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The most obvious, but not the only component of biodiversity
Species Diversity
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The earths variety of species contains an even greater variety of genes
genetic diversity
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the earth's variety of deserts, grassland, forest, mountains, oceans, lakes, rivers, and wetland is another major component of biodiversity
ecosystem diversity
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the variety of matter processes such as matter cycling and energy flow taking place within ecosystems
functional diversity
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