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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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An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week (news.mongabay.com) 0 solo 10 »
Shark nets planned for €100 million Club Med resort threaten endangered species in South Africa (www.france24.com) 0 supersquirrel 20 »
Scientists discover the invisible scent language of plants (www.thebrighterside.news) 0 supersquirrel 9 »
They Set Up Cameras In A Remote Mountain Range And Found The World's Rarest Rabbit (www.thedodo.com) 4 supersquirrel 22 »
Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds (www.theguardian.com) 1 supersquirrel 19 »
New Panama tree species identified after 25 years is already endangered (phys.org) 0 Lee Duna 36 »
A fish a day: More than 300 freshwater species described in 2025 (news.mongabay.com) 0 solo 20 »
Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades (apnews.com) 0 supersquirrel 13 »
No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree (www.nature.com) 2 solo 18 »
Research Expediton In Argentina Helps Uncover And Restore Massive Cold-Water Coral Reef | Ocean News & Technology (oceannews.com) 0 supersquirrel 19 »
Algarve cattle considered extinct brought back from brink – Portugal Resident (www.portugalresident.com) 0 supersquirrel 24 »
Cool Critters: Killdeer – the champion of fakers – appearing in a field or parking lot near you (www.spokesman.com) 2 supersquirrel 10 »
Acoustic Telemetry Network Reveals Connectivity of the Gilthead Seabream - environment coastal & offshore (ecomagazine.com) 0 supersquirrel 8 »
Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma (news.mongabay.com) 0 solo 13 »
Small Step to Yield a Big Coastal Protection Win - environment coastal & offshore (ecomagazine.com) 0 supersquirrel 8 »
Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea (www.theguardian.com) 0 Lee Duna 13 »
How coastal community is restoring degraded coral and reviving economy (www.the-star.co.ke) 0 supersquirrel 3 »
A fanged frog long thought to be one species is revealing itself to be several (phys.org) 0 cm0002 7 »
‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade (www.theguardian.com) 0 Lee Duna 25 »
‘Who’d guess they’re the same species?’ What Italy’s wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters (www.theguardian.com) 0 supersquirrel 10 »
Appalachia’s iconic salamander was slated for federal protection. It’s still in limbo. (grist.org) 0 Salamence 23 »
The Sum of Its Plants | Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology | UC Santa Barbara (www.eemb.ucsb.edu) 0 supersquirrel 5 »
A regional network is racing to save the Midwest's native seeds (grist.org) 0 supersquirrel 20 »
Old Irish Goats Are Ireland’s Only Indigenous Goat Breed and Trace Back 3,000 Years (www.discovermagazine.com) 0 supersquirrel 13 »
Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting (www.carbonbrief.org) 0 Jim East 10 »
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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.

Notice Board

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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