Detailed study of plant and animal kingdoms

Population attributes

Introduction A population is defined as the total number of people who reside in a given area. The population of a city refers to how many people live there. Residents or occupants are the terms used to describe this group of individuals. All people who reside in the region are included in the population. In […]

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Latitudinal Gradient

Latitude is a measure of a location’s angular distance from the equator, ranging from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles. Gradient refers to the direction and pace of the most rapid rise. The gradient in latitude: As we move away from the equator and closer to the poles, the

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Biodiversity Hotspot

Biological diversity is that part of nature that includes genetic differences among individuals of a species, the variety and richness of all the species at different spatial scales, such as at the individual plant and animal level and at the species level at the regional, national, and global levels, as well as the diversity of

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Biodiversity and Conservation

Although the phrase ‘diversity’ is not new and has a long history, the term ‘biological diversity’ was coined recently. It was only in the 1980s that it was first used in scientific publications. The phrase biological variety was coined by Robert E. Jenkins and Thomas Lovejoy in 1980. “Biological diversity” is defined as “variability among

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