Biological diversity (or biodiversity) is the variety of life on Earth. It includes all living things, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms like bacteria.

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Biological diversity (or biodiversity) is the variety of life on Earth. It includes all living things, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms like bacteria.

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The variability among living organisms from all sources including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part. This includes variation in genetic, phenotypic, phylogenetic, and functional attributes, as well as changes in abundance and distribution over time and space within and among species, biological communities and ecosystems.

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