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what do you mean by biodiversity?mention the merits and demerits of biodiversity


Pranati Prativa Prativa 17th Apr, 2022
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Ashish Ramtari 17th Apr, 2022

Biodiversity means the various life forms available on Earth. Biodiversity includes genetic, species, and economic system level. There are 5 billion species which are living on earth. The advantages and disadvantages of biodiversity are mentioned below:

Advantages:

  • The biodiversity is very helpful to maintain the food web and food chain.
  • Biodiversity also includes plants which are helpful for making environment better and also controls temperature.

Disadvantages:

  • The more number of animals and plants increases the population and this can cause more consumption of resources and extinction of resources.
  • Excess of biodiversity can cause loss of life by one animal attack over another animal or human.

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