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A community about the variety of life on Earth at all levels; including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi.

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Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.

Over generations, all of the species that are currently alive today have evolved unique traits that make them distinct from other species. These differences are what scientists use to tell one species from another. Organisms that have evolved to be so different from one another that they can no longer reproduce with each other are considered different species. All organisms that can reproduce with each other fall into one species. Read more...

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Elusive Cozumel dwarf fox reappears in first confirmed photos after two decades (phys.org) 1 ZeroCool 53 »
Foxes moved into a solar farm, and they ended up turning the panels into part of their habitat (www.ecoportal.net) 10 snoons 85 »
How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko (news.mongabay.com) 0 supersquirrel 19 »
How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? (journals.plos.org) 0 solo 17 »
Rare male red pipefish carrying eggs on its trunk spotted in Sydney (phys.org) 0 solo 22 »
How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species’ Past | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org) 0 supersquirrel 9 »
We've Been Testing For Consciousness Wrong [21:29] (www.youtube.com) 0 solo 16 »
New Species of Tiny Blue Octopus Discovered in the Galápagos (time.com) 2 ZeroCool 40 »
The fog is alive: Researchers discover bacteria in fog droplets clear toxins from air (news.asu.edu) 0 solo 35 »
A Chicago Zoo Raised 12,000 Tadpoles to Save One of the World’s Rarest Toads — the Puerto Rican Crested Toad (www.discovermagazine.com) 0 supersquirrel 30 »
Chimpanzees reveal 69 socially learned behaviors, nearly doubling known cultural repertoire (phys.org) 2 solo 22 »
Ghost shark, carnivorous sponge among 1,000+ newly discovered marine species (news.mongabay.com) 0 solo 19 »
Study gathers over 4,000 photos to find Bolivia’s rarest Amazonian dog (news.mongabay.com) 0 supersquirrel 41 »
Dragonflies Are Not What You Think (www.youtube.com) 0 solo 16 »
Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades (news.mongabay.com) 0 supersquirrel 17 »
New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive (news.mongabay.com) 0 Salamence 17 »
Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines (news.mongabay.com) 0 Salamence 37 »
Experts sound alarm as North America’s bees start swarm season unusually early (www.theguardian.com) 4 Lee Duna 75 »
Crabs' sideways walk may have evolved just once (www.sciencenews.org) 1 ZeroCool 14 »
61 new beetle species reveal how little we still know about biodiversity (phys.org) 1 ZeroCool 46 »
Fears Grow Most Galápagos Penguins May Die This Year Due to Super El Niño (www.newsweek.com) 0 Lee Duna 34 »
Hairy new fish species discovered in the Great Barrier Reef (phys.org) 0 ZeroCool 26 »
Rice plants observed trapping and killing fall armyworm caterpillars (phys.org) 0 ZeroCool 35 »
Invasive plant threatens livelihoods in Colombia’s largest coastal wetland (apnews.com) 0 Lee Duna 10 »
Genetics link Angola's 'ghost elephants' to populations hundreds of miles away (phys.org) 0 ZeroCool 13 »
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About this forum

Welcome to c/Biodiversity @ Mander.xyz!

A community about the variety of life on Earth at all levels; including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi.

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This is a work in progress, please don't mind the mess.

2023-06-16: We invite our users to contribute resources for the sidebar.

2023-06-15: Looking for mods!

About

Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.

Over generations, all of the species that are currently alive today have evolved unique traits that make them distinct from other species. These differences are what scientists use to tell one species from another. Organisms that have evolved to be so different from one another that they can no longer reproduce with each other are considered different species. All organisms that can reproduce with each other fall into one species. Read more...

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