What does biodiversity mean as a set of all forms of life present in the respective ecosystems of which it represents the index of their integrity.
Definition of biodiversity
This term defines the complex of varieties of life forms present in a given environment.
The importance of biodiversity lies in the role it plays with regard to the conservation of dynamic balance in the biosphere, determining its ability to react and adapt to changes and environmental disturbances, an essential factor for its survival.
The species described amount to about 1.4 million but it is estimated that there are many more, there are those who even speak of 30 million.
Rainforests, although currently one of the most degraded environments, have very high values of biodiversity, more than half of the total, although their extension covers only less than ten percent of the earth's surface.
As an example, it is worth mentioning that, on a single tree in a Peruvian reserve, 43 different species of ants have been found, the same number present throughout Great Britain.
Furthermore, in 10 sections of forest randomly chosen in Borneo, over 700 tree species have been observed, equivalent to those present in the entire North American subcontinent.
