1. BIODIVERSITY Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Greater biodiversity implies greater health. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions support fewer species.

2. LINKING BIODIVERSITY LEVELS Measuring diversity at one level in a group of organisms may not precisely correspond to diversity at other levels. However, tetrapod (terrestrial vertebrates) taxonomic and ecological diversity shows a very close correlation.

3. EVOLUTION DEFINATION Biodiversity is the result of 3.5 billion years of evolution. The origin of life has not been definitely established by science, however some evidence suggests that life may already have been well-established only a few hundred million years after the formation of the Earth. Until approximately 600 million years ago, all life consisted of archaea, bacteria, protozoans and similar single-celled organisms.

4. Distribution biodiversity depends upon Climate,altitude,soil,presence of other species Even though terrestrial biodiversity declines from equator to poles this characteristic is unverified in aquatic ecosystem and marine ecosystem In addition several assessments reveal tremendous diversity in higher latitudes.

5. EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION The existence of a "global carrying capacity", limiting the amount of life that can live at once, is debated, as is the question of whether such a limit would also cap the number of species. While records of life in the sea shows a logistic pattern of growth, life on land (insects, plants and tetrapods)shows an exponential rise in diversity. As one author states, "Tetrapods have not yet invaded 64 per cent of potentially habitable modes, and it could be that without human influence the ecological and taxonomic diversity of tetrapods would continue to increase in an exponential fashion until most or all of the available ecospace is filled."

6. HUMAN BENEFITS The reservoir of genetic traits present in wild varieties and traditionally grown landraces is extremely important in improving crop performance. Important crops, such as potato, banana and coffee, are often derived from only a few genetic strains.[Improvements in crop species over the last 250 years have been largely due to incorporating genes from wild varieties and species into cultivars.[Crop breeding for beneficial traits has helped to more than double crop production in the last 50 years as a result of the Green Revolution. A biodiverse environment preserves the genome from which such productive genes are drawn.

7. Conservation

8. OTHER BENEFITS OF BIODIVERSITY Biodiversity inspires musician, painters , sculptors or writers and other artists. biodiversity helps in promoting : LESIURE CULTURAL VALUES AESTHETIC VALUES

9. VALUES OF SPECIES AND BIODIVERSITY In developing idea over all value of biodiversity it has been natural to draw on existing arguments about values of individual species .Commodity value and other direct use values have intuitive appeal because they reflect non values. But a key problem is that species need to be preserved for reason other than know values as resources for Human use.

10. SPECIES THAT ARE ON VERGE OF EXTINCTION 10-30 million of insect 5-10 million of bacteria 1.5 million of fugi and 1 million mites SPECIES LOSS German federal environment minister sigmargabriel cited estimates that upto 30% of all species will extinct by 2050.

11. Factor responsible for endangerment of biodiversity Habitat destruction Introduced and invasive species Genetic pollution Hybridization, genetic pollution/erosion and food security Climate change The holocene extinction

12. CONSEVATION Conservation biology matured in the mid -20thcentaryas ecologists naturalists and other scientist began to research and address issue pertaining to global biodiversity declines. Conservation ethnic advocates management of natural resources for the purpose of sustaining biodiversity in species ecosystem and evolutionary process, and human culture and society

13. Protection and restoration techniques

14. Business and industry Many industrial materials derive from biological resources.these include building materials ,fibres , dyes, rubber and oil. It is also important to the security of resources such as water ,timber ,paper ,fibre and food.

15. RESOURCE ALLOCATION Focus on limited areas of higer potential biodiversity promises greater immediate return on investment then spreading resources evenly or focusing on areas of little diversity but greater interest in bio diversity A second strategy focuses on area that retain most of their original diversity,whichtppically require or no restoration.

16. Legal status The relationship between law and ecosystems is very ancient and has consequences for biodiversity. It is related to private and public property rights. Law regarding species is more recent. It defines species that must be protected because they may be threatened by extinction.. Laws regarding gene pools are only about a century old.

18. Analytical limits Less than 1% of all species that have been described have been studied beyond simply noting their existence.The vast majority of Earth's species are microbial. Contemporary biodiversity physics is "firmly fixated on the visible [macroscopic] world". For example, microbial life is metabolically and environmentally more diverse than multicellular life

19. Conclusion:- Bio diversity conservation is a need be of hour. Its high time to aware.