What are five reasons why biodiversity is important?
1) Biodiversity is important to the continued functioning of ecosystems. An ecosystem is a collection of plants and animals that have co-evolved together and form a functioning living community. If enough of the species are lost the balance that allowed the ecosystem to function will fail and the ecosystem will collapse. Functioning ecosystems are important to people because they supply many of the resources we need to survive including oxygen, food, pollution removal, and recreation. 2) Biodiversity enables ecosystems to survive change. Biodiversity is basically a collection of genes. The more diverse the collection of genes, then the more different types of characteristics organisms can produce and so the more tools that organisms have to survive under changing conditions. 3) Biodiversity can help people survive change. For instance with Global Warming climates will change all over the world. Those changes will mean that plants and animals we currently depend on for food in some case
