Question

Short answer question:
What is biodiversity ? Why is it different in different places?

Answer 1

Biodiversity can be described as the sum total of all plants and animals found in a particular area. It is basically a measure of all variations found at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. It is mainly influenced by the environmental, geographical, climatic and topographical conditions of an area. Only the animals that can adapt to a particular environment can live there. For example, freshwater fish rohu cannot survive in marine water bodies. Because of this, the fishes that survive on rohu can also not survive in marine habitats. Hence, the environmental conditions of an area govern the nature of its biodiversity and result in different places having different forms of biodiversity.