The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

What natural and anthropogenic processes influence biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem stability? How can ecology increase our ability to understand and manage ecosystems?

Short for biological diversity, biodiversity is the range of variation found among microorganisms, plants, fungi, and animals. Some of this variation is found within species, such as differences in ...

Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls Mar. 18, 2025 — A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural ...

Fragmentation occurs over time as deforestation proceeds, and tracking biodiversity change as deforestation and fragmentation progress is rare. Instead, scientists often compare patterns of ...

Please note that the Biodiversity Trends Explorer is no longer live. The BTE data was generated in 2021. Because we want to provide the latest and most accurate models available, we will be removing ...