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BIOLOGY - Environment - What is biodiversity
Biodiversity is a key concept in ecology and has importance on both local and global scales. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life, or put more simply, the number of different individuals and lifeforms in an area. Scientists...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Biodiversity
This video provides an overview of biodiversity, focusing on the three layers or types of diversity: genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. The video also highlights the significance of species diversity in...
Curated Video
The Importance of Biodiversity in Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biodiversity. The video explains the importance of maintaining high levels of biodiversity and how human activities are reducing it. The presenter uses examples to illustrate how changes in one...
Mazz Media
Biodiversity
In this live-action program viewers will learn that biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of all living organisms and the different ecological complexes in which they exist.
Students will come to understand that the word...
Earth Rangers
Biodiversity
The world is filled with many living things of all shapes and sizes. From plants and animals to fungi and bacteria, every living thing is important and plays a role on our Earth. The variety of living things in a habitat is known as...
msvgo
Biodiversity Conservation
It presents arguments for conservation of biodiversity including narrowly utilitarian, broadly utilitarian and ethical reasons. It also describes in-situ and ex-situ conservations methods.
Nature League
Biodiversity and Extinction Vulnerability - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the impact of biodiversity on extinction vulnerability in terms of trophic redundancy. Article citation: Dirk Sanders, Elisa...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: The Threat of Biodiversity Loss
Learn more about the issue of biodiversity loss in this interview with Dr. Enrique Salmón.
Science360
Conserving biodiversity in Central Africa
The Congo basin is an unruly ribbon of tropical forest, over a million square miles spanning six countries in Central Africa. It is the second-largest contiguous tropical forest in the world. The basin is home to the classics of African...
Nature League
Does Life on Earth Have a Voice? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explores the four main categories of communication for life on Earth, and discusses the realities of interspecies communication. Guest starring: Adrian Adams as the bit partner, Sean Kirkpatrick as...
Nature League
Nature + Engineering
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of engineering by describing and displaying some examples of high tech and everyday biomimicry.
Nature League
Increasing Night Life of Mammals - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the increasing nocturnality of mammals around the globe. Article citation: Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and...
Nature League
Adaptations at Animal Wonders - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins Jessi Knudsen Castaneda at Animal Wonders Montana to discuss defensive adaptations across the animal kingdom.
Animal Wonders is an organization dedicated to adopting displaced wildlife and...
Nature League
What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the levels, dimensions, and values associated with biodiversity.
Visual Learning Systems
Review of Biodiversity
This video reviews concepts covered in the Biodiversity series. The speaker discusses how places can be described in terms of biodiversity. The video also highlights the variation of biodiversity from place to place and the importance of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Importance of Biodiversity
The video is a short educational piece that explains the importance of biodiversity and its impact on the health of the planet. The video also highlights some of the causes of species extinction, such as habitat destruction and...
Visual Learning Systems
Biodiversity on Earth
The video explores the concept of biodiversity and how it differs between different types of environments. It starts by showcasing a tropical rainforest, then contrasts this with the tundra, a cold and dry environment with much lower...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Biodiversity and Ecosystems
This video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it varies in different ecosystems. The video then compares the relatively low biodiversity of a cornfield to the high biodiversity of a wetland and mentions how rainforests are...
FuseSchool
Human impacts on Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of life. There are thought to be 8.7 million species on planet Earth. And, as we saw in this video, biodiversity is of utmost importance to humans. The loss of one key species can have a detrimental impact on...
Nature League
What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - What is organic farming
As populations have grown, farming practices have become more intensified to maximise crop yields and ensure we can feed the ever growing population. Fertilisers and pesticides are used on crops, and animals may be kept inside in more...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Biodiversity
The video invites the viewer to think about the living things they observe in their surroundings, such as plants and animals. It highlights that different places on Earth have different types of living things and explores how these...
Visual Learning Systems
Comparing Biodiversity: From Parking Lots to Forests
The video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it can be used to describe different places. It features three different locations - an old parking lot, an abandoned farm field, and a forest - and compares their levels of...
Visual Learning Systems
People and the Environment: Species Extinction and Exotic Species
Students will explore the notion of resource conservation, and identify the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources. Some of the ways our environment may be harmed via pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and...