By definition, biodiversity is diverse: it spans several levels of biological organization (genes, species, ecosystems); it cannot be measured by simple universal indicators such as temperature ...

Idiosyncratic patterns of local species richness and turnover define global biodiversity hotspots. Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ...

Social enterprises are making strides in protecting biodiversity, but without the full support of governments and the private sector, they won’t be able to achieve their full potential.

For example, Wikipedia proposes the delightfully vague definition: “Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, ...