Biodiversity is a contraction of biological diversity. Biodiversity reflects
the number, variety and variability of living organisms.
It includes diversity within species
(genetic diversity), between species
(species diversity), and between ecosystems
(ecosystem diversity).
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Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources,
including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic
ecosystems and the ecological complexes of
which they are part.