Biodiversity: Extraordinary variety of life on Earth

• From genes and species to ecosystems and valuable function they perform
• E.O. Wilson, Biologist coined the word “Biodiversity” and explains it as “the very stuff of life.”
• It is a short form of “Biological diversity”
• For at least 3.8 billion years, a complex web of life has been evolving here on Earth.
• Millions of species now inhabit land, freshwater and ocean ecosystems.
• All species including human beings are intricately linked.
• Biodiversity is the variety of all these living things and their interactions.