2000), in addition to the high rates of species extinctions already occurring worldwide (Stork 2010). Biodiversity is a term that can be used to describe biological diversity at a variety of ...

Earth is home to an astonishing diversity of species that provide food, medicine and other infrastructure necessary for the existence of humankind. Given intense competition between species for ...

76% (605) of the world’s coral species (798) are found in the Coral Triangle, the highest coral diversity in the world. The epicenter of that coral diversity is found in the Bird’s Head Peninsula of ...