Biodiversity is "the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem." (what) By definition, but all the different species of animals and plants on earth are examples of biodiversity.
One part of biodiversity is the evolution of one species into multiple different species. The Finch island (named after Darwin Finch who found the island) It was a finch paradise. The finches had no predators, and plenty of food. Well they had plenty of food the finches ate the food to fast but instead of fighting each other the finches with small differences (mainly in their beak) split into groups. The finches with longer skinnier beaks that were good at getting worms and other grub went into one group, and the finches with shorter wider beaks that were good at cracking nuts and seeds into another group. The groups got so far part that they wouldn’t mate with each other. Then the differences only got larger the finches with long beaks got even longer beaks, and the finches with short beaks go shorter stronger beaks.
Biodiversity is like a giant web. The giant web I’m talking about is a food web. Now if the food web is large enough you can completely take a species out of the web and not much would happen. Animals higher up on the web would simply eat another animal or producer.
If the web is two small or there is an animal that solely eats only one thing, and you take that one thing out of the web it can cause a gigantic chain reaction that will eventually make the whole web fall.
Work Cited
"What Is Biodiversity." What Is Biodiversity - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
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