Importance of Biodiversity

Understand biodiversity as a measure of the immense variety of all the different species of organisms on Earth or within a specific ecosystem.

Explain how high biodiversity ensures the long-term stability of ecosystems by significantly reducing the dependence of one species on another for food, shelter, and physical environmental maintenance.

Assess how the ongoing survival and future of the human species on Earth directly relies on maintaining a high level of biodiversity.

Evaluate how numerous human activities are currently reducing biodiversity and understand that intervention measures have only recently been implemented to attempt to halt this decline.