BIODIVERSITY IN INDIA

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Biodiversity is the part of nature which includes the difference in genes among the individuals of a species, the variety and richness of all the plant and animal species at different scales in space, locally in a region, in the country and the world and various types of ecosystems, both terrestrial and aquatic within a defined area. Biodiversity deals with the degree of nature’s variety in the biosphere

Types of biodiversity

Genetic diversity - the genetic variability within a species.

Species diversity - the variety of species within a community

Ecosystem diversity - the organisation of species in an area into distinctive plant and animal communities.