Maintaining biodiversity essential for human sustainability

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Q1. What is the biodiversity?

What are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the globe and how are humans impacting it?

Is maintaining biodiversity essential for human sustainability?

What can be done to keep today are current biodiversity levels?

What are invasive species and how do they impact biodiversity?

Q2. Two species of garter snakes live in the same geographic area. One generally lives in water and the other mainly on land, so that they rarely encounter each other and do not interbreed. This is an example of what category of genetic isolation?

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