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Biodiversity

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Biodiversity

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  1. Biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is, according to the International Convention on Biological Diversity, the term by which refers to the wide variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns that form, result of billions of years of evolution natural processes as well as the increasing influence of human activities. Biodiversity also includes the variety of ecosystems and genetic differences within each species that allow the combination of multiple forms of life, and whose mutual interactions with the rest of the environment underlying the sustenance of life on the planet.

  2. The term "biodiversity" is a replica of the English "biodiversity". This term, in turn, is a contraction of the term "biological diversity" that was used for the first time in September 1986 in the title of a conference on the subject, the National Forum on Biodiversity, convened by Walter G. Rosen, who is credited with the idea of ​​the word.

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