Essays on Biodiversity

Introduction The vast majority of butterflies have a four-stage life cycle; egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis) and imago (adult). In the genera Colias, Erebia, Euchloe andParnassius, a small number of species are known that reproduce semi-parthenogenetically; when the female dies, a partially developed larva emerges…

Nature scientists have, for a long time, been interested in the butterflies’ colorful wings. The coloration patterns on the wings of a butterfly have many roles, which include the attraction of the male, concealment, mate identification, and aposematic (warning) signaling. Given that the coloration on…

Introduction Admiralty Park, located in Woodlands, houses the largest nature area within an urban park in Singapore. With its wide range of habitat like mangrove and open grassland, it is also home to more than 100 species of flora and fauna and one of the…

Introduction Industrialization is classified as the development of industries in a region on a wide scale, the key word here is ‘wide-scale’, in order for industrialization to occur, we need to alter the ecosystem in a sense that the land must be cleared, the consequences…

Biotic factors, the living factors being other organisms that are part of an individual’s ecosystem. These other organisms may compete with individuals for food or other resources. These factors affect the distribution of various species and the abundance of a species. So called living nature…

Introduction and Background On the 19 of September, Wednesday, 2018 Dulwich College Shanghai, Year 9 took a field trip to the Dongtan wetland park on Chongming Island in Shanghai. The wetland park is open from 9: 00 AM to 5: 00/17: 00 PM. They have…

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are supposed to play an important role in Sri Lankan economy as they are capable of generating employments, promoting the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), embarking on innovations and stimulating of other economic activities. This sector is said to…

An opposition of exotic species is something that appears to be blindly taught in settings of higher education. Students are taught that the words exotic and damaging are synonymous; they are taught no distinction between human-introduced exotics and general exotics. They are taught solely about…

Whether it is the beautiful coral reefs off the coast of Australia attracting tourists and fish for breeding grounds, Coca-Cola Bears in Antarctica, Bacteria being used in the medical field for treatment of pathogens, or in humans in everyday activity, Biodiversity is everywhere (Pimm 2018)….

World. Disasters. Calamity. Scarcity. Hunger. Crisis. Extinction. Earth. Humanity. Survival. Keywords in understanding the flow of life in the world. These are concept designated in the minds of people that creates a dillema of worry and fear for a dangerous world we live in and…