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The variety and variability among living organisms from all sources, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part; is diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems (Convention on Biological Diversity). In addition, the biodiversity in simplest way can be defined as “sum total species richness of a given area”.
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Nautiyal, S., Bhaskar, K., Imran Khan, Y.D. (2015). Status of Biodiversity as per IUCN, IWPA, and CITES in Studied Semiarid Region, Karnataka, India. In: Biodiversity of Semiarid Landscape. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15464-0_5
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