biodiversity

Examples of biodiversity in the following topics:

• Newly Discovered Eukaryotes

  • Contemporary biodiversity is "firmly fixated on the visible world".

• Hydrothermal Vent Microbial Ecosystems

  • Hydrothermal vents are biodiversity hot spots because they have many species that are uniquely adapted to live in this harsh environment .

• The Deep Sea and Barophilism

  • Since the 19th century however, research has demonstrated that significant biodiversity exists in the deep sea.

• Endophytes and Plants

  • However, since there are few scientists working in this field, and since forests and areas of biodiversity are rapidly being destroyed, many useful endophytes for curing disease might be permanently lost for medicinal use before they are discovered.

• Emerging Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

  • This is especially worse in tropical areas of the world with high levels of biodiversity such as Africa, South America, and South Asia.

• Environmental Diversity of Microbes

  • Interfering with natural microbial biomass disrupts the balance of nature and the ecosystem and leads to loss of biodiversity.

• Cyanobacteria

  • The ability of cyanobacteria to perform oxygenic photosynthesis is thought to have converted the early reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing one, which dramatically changed the composition of life forms on Earth by stimulating biodiversity and leading to the near-extinction of oxygen-intolerant organisms.

• Metagenomics

  • Such work revealed that the vast majority of microbial biodiversity had been missed by cultivation-based methods.