ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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gives us interesting things to look at.
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tells us about many other species.
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is the biological life-support system of our planet.
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provides humans with resistance to disease.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on Earth, including humans. Without a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms, we cannot have the healthy ecosystems that we rely on to provide us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. And people also value nature of itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Without biodiversity, our entire support system for human, as well as animal life, would collapse. We rely on nature to provide us with food and clean water, for a lot of medicines, and to prevent flooding and other extreme weather effects.
Detailed explanation-3: -Environmental Benefits The biggest impact of biodiversity is on the environment. Healthy ecosystems help to maintain the Earth’s natural processes. Soil turnover, water purification, pest control, and other processes wouldn’t be possible without the species that support them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Biodiversity is related to the biosphere in that biodiversity is contained within the biosphere. The biosphere is the sphere of Earth that includes all life, no matter what ecosystem it lives in. Since biodiversity is looking at life within an ecosystem, it is looking within the biosphere.
Detailed explanation-5: -Biodiversity is important to humans for ecological life support, biodiversity gives a functioning ecosystem that provides oxygen, clear air and water, plant pollutions, pest control, wastewater treatment and lots of ecosystem services.