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Biodiversity and Conservation

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31. Expand IUCN.

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32. What term is used to describe the four major causes of loss of biodiversity?

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33. Name the two basic strategies of conservation of biodiversity.

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34. What are hot spots ?

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35. Name two hot spots of India.

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36. Explain what is meant by species diversity ?

Species diversity is the diversity at the level of species. It is a measure of the diversity within an ecological community that incorporates both species richness and the species evenness.

The two important measures of species diversity are :
(i) Species richness. It refers to the number of species per unit area.

(ii) Species evenness. It refers to the relative abundance with which each species is represented in an area.

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37. What is genetic diversity ? Explain.

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38. Write a note on ecological diversity.

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39.

Describe species area relationship.

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40. Explain briefly the broadly utilarian arguments for conserving biodiversity.

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