Biodiversity

Overview

Biodiversity is the variety of life across genes, species, and ecosystems, encompassing the richness and abundance of organisms and the habitats that sustain them. It underpins ecosystem function and the services on which human wellbeing depends, and its assessment and conservation are central to environmental science. Research in this area frequently quantifies species richness and abundance, as in surveys of insect biodiversity in lakes and semi-arid ecosystems, and applies molecular approaches to identify and distinguish species such as freshwater fish. Environmental drivers of biodiversity are a major focus, including the influence of habitat factors, land-use practices, and water quality, as well as the pressures imposed by climate change and extreme hydrological events. Habitat fragmentation is shown to reshape ecological interactions, for example the resource partitioning of endemic pollinators, while protected areas and habitat-suitability analyses support the conservation of larger fauna such as buffaloes and other mammals. Sustainable agricultural practices, including permaculture, are examined for their capacity to maintain biodiversity within managed landscapes. Research in this area measures biodiversity across taxa and habitats, identifies the environmental and anthropogenic factors that threaten or sustain it, and informs conservation and management strategies aimed at protecting ecological variety and the functions it provides.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 2 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Climate Change and Water Resource Degradation: Understanding Relationships
  2026 · Journal of Water Resource and Protection
• The olive plant microbiome: Regional variations, climate change resilience and cultivar-specific dynamics in arid and Mediterranean regions
  2026 · Total Environment Microbiology

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