Ecological Value Of Biodiversity. Firstly biodiversity is directly used as a source for food fibre fuel and other extractable resources. Biodiversity is essential for preserving ecological processes such as fixing and recycling of nutrients soil formation circulation and cleansing of air and water global life support maintaining the water balance within.
Values of biodiversity can be categorized as follows. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases aerosols and loss of land cover and biological diversity causing a rapid loss of biodiversity and extinctions of species and local populations. Secondly biodiversity plays an important role in ecosystem processes providing the regulating cultural and supporting services.
The role of biodiversity in providing ecosystem services is twofold.
Biodiversity reflects the natural assemblage of large number of plant and animal species in a given area. It is part of a larger ecosystem in which biotic and abiotic components interact and bring about circulation transformation and accumulation of energy and matter. We value biodiversity for many reasons some utilitarian some intrinsic. Biodiversity is essential for preserving ecological processes such as fixing and recycling of nutrients soil formation circulation and cleansing of air and water global life support maintaining the water balance within.
