What is Biodiversity?

 “Biodiversity is having a sustainable balance of primary producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers within an ecosystem that provides ecosystem services and has adapted to direct and indirect threats unseen.” -April Y Cudd

Dr. Sylvia Earle and Mission Blue: “Networks of marine protected areas maintain healthy biodiversity, provide a carbon sink, generate life-giving oxygen, preserve critical habitat and allow low-impact activities like ecotourism to thrive.” -Mission Blue

Natural History Museum: “Biodiversity is the incredible variety of life on Earth-from tiny bacteria to whales, rainforests to coral reefs.” 

Dr. Edward O Wilson: “Biodiversity includes life at the gene, species, and ecosystem levels and is the foundation of the world we know.” -Dr. EO Wilson

References

Horizon International. (2011). Sylvia Earle Alliance's Mission Blue and Partners Establish Ocean Hope Spots | HORIZON SOLUTIONS SITE. Horizon International Solutions site. Retrieved May 25, 2022, from https://www.solutions-site.org/node/1162

National Park Service. (2022, January 28). Dr. EO Wilson's Biodiversity Legacy Lives on at Rocky Mountain National Park (US National Park Service). National Park Service. Retrieved May 25, 2022, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/e-o-wilson-biodiversity.htm

Natural History Museum. (n.d.). Biodiversity. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2022, from https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/biodiversity.html