Biodiversity: Key to Life

Humans, nature’s most intellectual organisms and gifted with tools to make possible everything. While on the journey of making everything bound in their hands, slowly and steadily they are now starting to harm the basic fundamental thing for survival i.e., biodiversity. Ask anyone a child to expert, s/he had definitely listen to this word and somewhat know its meaning also but do they understand it completely. 

Biodiversity or biological diversity is the joined word between bio meaning life and diversity meaning variety. In simple terms biodiversity accounts for all the possible diversification of living organisms on our planet. The essence and importance of biodiversity go on to increase when we tried to explain it. From minuscule to macroscale level everything is connected. Biodiversity is the ecological life support system. Here, each and everyone species perform its definitive role or niche so that the whole biosphere thrives. The most common example we see is that of bees, first, they pollinate almost 1/3rd of the plants including our crops which satisfy our hunger. But looking deep in this example, after immediate germination of seeds, microorganisms below the surface work so that the plant function effectively. Before flowering, the bud needs to be protected from different attacking insects where wasps come into play defending from harmful insects. After it is flowered then depending upon plant species they have their own pollinator which mostly is bees. We had just observed that just for a plant to grow and produce its fruit there is the involvement of many organisms. This is the beauty of biodiversity and how the world runs upon it. Further, biodiversity provides crucial services such as seed dispersal, climate regulation, water purification, nutrient cycling, and control of agricultural pests.