Ecological Value Of Biodiversity. Biodiversity is considered to have great value on cultural and religious grounds specially in india and east asian countries. Biodiversity provides a variety of environmental services from its species and ecosystems that are essential at the global regional and local levels.
Biodiversity reflects the natural assemblage of large number of plant and animal species in a given area. All species perform different role in ecosystem. Biodiversity is essential for preserving ecological processes such as fixing and recycling of nutrients soil formation circulation and cleansing of air and water global life support maintaining the water balance within.
Biodiversity has immense ecological importance.
Traditionally ecologists have measured biodiversity by taking into account both the number of species and the number of individuals of each species known as relative abundance. It is part of a larger ecosystem in which biotic and abiotic components interact and bring about circulation transformation and accumulation of energy and matter. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases aerosols and loss of land cover and biological diversity causing a rapid loss of biodiversity and extinctions of species and local populations. Secondly biodiversity plays an important role in ecosystem processes providing the regulating cultural and supporting services.
