| Front | biodiversity 4.2.1(a) |
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| Back | variety of living organisms present in an area, essential in maintaining balanced ecosystem - all species interconnected (depend on one another) and so in regions of low bio, all species harmed, balanced ecosystem provides food, O2 and other materials but human activities dec bio - closer a region is to equator, greater the bio (more in hot places rather than cold/dry ones), measuring bio helps in conservation (provides baseline for level of bio in area), so effect of change in enviro measured, before major project undertaken, EIA undertaken to predict +ves and -ves of project on bio |
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