Essays on Biodiversity

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…

Biodiversity, a contraction of biological diversity as the term used to describe the total variety of living organism. It is essential for stabilization of ecosystem and protection of overall environmental qualities. The study of biodiversity is an important issue in today’s world (Khan and Hasan,…

Viruses help maintain marine biodiversity by keeping populations in check: in particular, bacteria and algae, which make up the vast majority of living matter in the ocean. According to suttle (2007) Viruses are probably responsible for killing about 25-30 % of the living material in…

Agriculture’s Impact on Biodiversity Agriculture began up to 12,000 years ago and over time has completely changed the way humans live and how the world is around us (Development). Before agriculture, most people were nomadic and gathered food. Once agriculture and farming became a regular…

Wicked Problems When you first hear the term wicked problems, it’s easy to imagine something evil. And while dealing with environmental problems, it becomes increasingly easy to define everything that causes damage as evil and difficult. Therefore, the concept of wicked problems becomes even more…