Here is your short essay on Plant Diversity.
Because urban environments are relatively similar across different cities there are concerns that urbanization will cause a reduction in the diversity among plant and animal communities across the Earth, a process known as biotic homogenization. However, ecologists do not know whether such strong similarities in the patterns of urban biodiversity exist across cities globally or if the same.
Urban gardens can harbour a high diversity of insects, which are critically important components of urban ecosystems. In this work, we investigate the richness and diversity of a major taxon of economic and ecological importance, the aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae), and their main insect predators, the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) and ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), in urban gardens.
The Importance of Biodiversity in Urban Areas Biodiversity is the variety of life in a certain area- the range of plants, animals and other organisms that can be found in one ecosystem. For many people, biodiversity is something that is associated with rural areas, where you can see the various species of plants and animals alive and thriving.
This book contains 15 chapters that review the aspects of plant evolution as it relates to variation in plant genomes (gene level) and associated variations in plant phenomes (trait level). Topics covered include chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes, reticulate evolution, polyploidy, population genetics within a species, the evolution of the flower, diversity in plant cell walls and in.
Diversity of PlantsPlants evolved more than 430 million years ago from multicellular green algae. By 300 million years ago, trees had evolved and formed forests, within which the diversification of vertebrates, insects, and fungi occurred. Roughly 266,000 species of plants are now living. T.
Urban Diversity: Disentangling the Cultural from the Economic Case. are often at the center of debates on diversity. As I contend in this essay, the case for diversity has both a cultural and an economic dimension. The ambivalence of the term is what makes it both so appealing and ultimately self-contradic-tory. The problem with such a conflated under-standing of diversity is that it.
Biodiversity, ecosystem processes and functions and human habitants in an urban environment are influenced by the speed and spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization (Wu et al. 2011; Asgarian et al. 2015; Sangani et al. 2015; Wu 2014; Jaafari et al. 2015). Landscape beauty is being affected by LULC changes and urbanization has led to the destruction of aesthetic values in many parts of the world.