Biodiversity exists in every ecosystem with habitat variation

Good question,

The biodiversity is a good way to determine the ecosystem services,

some species are commercial so we can evaluate directly the economic importance,

but for noncommercial species we need to determine their importance in the ecosystem and than the services

adaptation

and I see both biodiversity and ecosystem are a results for each other with a critical relationship

Biodiversity is lined with health of an ecosystem and contributed to ecosystem stability and ecosystem services..

It is the evolution of an ecosystem which drives its constituents and the extent of biodiversity.

Biodiversity is vital attribute of any ecosystem. Biodiversity is the backbone of any ecosystem.

Dear Modestus,

there is a huge body of literature on the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. To start getting an overview, I suggest the following paper:

Article Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge an...

Classical experiments on the topic were carried out by the eminent American ecologist David Tilman:

Article Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands

Biodiversity losses aroused not only concern but also interest and controversy among theoretical ecologists. The main cause of controversy was the uncertainty as to how results describing the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem processes, and identifying functionally important species, might scale up to landscape and regional levels, and generalize across ecosystem types (Loreau et al. 2001). Moreover, many recent experiments on the topic were performed using plant-controlled systems (e.g., Tilman & Downing 1994), while the vast areas of biodiversity that involve small organisms (bacteria, archea, protists, microarthropods), which drive the bulk of ecosystem processes, are likely to be of particular importance (Loreau et al. 2001).

Ghilarov (2000), commenting on the extensive effort to find a connection between species loss and the efficiency of energy and matter fluxes in ecosystems to justify the need for biodiversity conservation, expressed an opinion that I completely share.

Article Ecosystem functioning and intrinsic value of biodiversity

He stated that ecosystems are (and should be presented to policy makers as) more than a machine for energy and matter processing, and also more than a natural factory producing different goods and services. He argued that, even if the role for biodiversity for primary production and other ecosystem functions would be unambiguously proven, this would hardly change the social and political situation with biodiversity conservation. He believes that “function” is not necessarily a better argument than “structure”, and proposes to widen the concept of function to include the synthesis of all compounds that plants, animals, and other organisms contain in their bodies or release in the environment. He urged ecologists to comment for the public on such subjects as evolution, irreversibility, uniqueness of every living species, unity of life etc., and concluded that ecosystem should be presented as a living stage for a unique evolutionary play, and as an example of evolutionary heritage that is probably worth protecting no less than the heritage of our culture.

Best wishes.

Marco

Biodiversity means various organisms in an area that area is called ecosystem

So an ecosystem has number of organisms then it named rich biodiversity

Article Investigating the inclusion of ecosystem services in biodive...

Thank you so much for the link Caroline Fassina.

Dear Marco Cantonati,

Thank you so much for the information and links. The articles are very useful.

Regards,

MO.

Insightful responses....

Biodiversity and ecosystem are depend upon each other

Take a look at this paper

Article Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European...

One can never thin these two to be separate entities.

Take a look on our paper, available on my researchgate page:

Using Metagenomics to Connect Microbial Community Biodiversity and Functions. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 24:103-118. 2017.

DOI: 10.21775/cimb.024.103

Following...

Ecosystem variability sprouts biodiversity.

Thank you so much Dennis Goss-Souza. Your paper is quite rich and helpful. I appreciate the useful link.

Both are interlinked and can not be conceived as separate entities.

Ecosystems support life forms (biodiversity) and biodiversity makes ecosystems sustainable.

Thank you so much Dr. B K Sharma.

Dear Modestus Okwu

Thanks for posting this vital question at RG.

It is pity to record that such important questions get limited attention at RG rather than routine

questions that are flooded with answers. Sad, it shows how little. we concern our biodiversity and ecosystems

Different ecosystems harbour varied biodiversity.

Same as between mother nature, human beings and all other living organisms.

I hope this book can partially give your answer

Biodiversity is the key source for 1) healthy ecosystems, clean water, purified air, fertile soil, regulated climate, recycled nutrients and healthy food. 2) raw materials and resources for medicines and other purposes. 3) the foundation of all civilization and sustain our economies. * It's that simple: we could not live without these “ecosystem services”. They are what we call our natural capital for us and for future generations.

Maintaining high levels of biodiversity is insurance against the impacts of changing environmental conditions.

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem functioning under stressful environmental conditions in relative, but not in absolute, terms.

Thank you so much Heba Elsalahy

these two terms are closely intertwined. a good ecosystem is generally highly bio-diverse- ie conducive for a wide range and variety of other flora and fauna. and the reverve is generally true.

Same as between all life forms and mother nature.

Dear Modestus,

you may want to have a look at the following article that provides a meta-analysis of 110 marine experiments from 42 studies that manipulated the species richness of organisms across a range of taxa and trophic levels and analysed the consequences for various ecosystem processes:

Article Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: What's known ...

Best regards.

Marco

Biodiversity is wealth of a nation and is essence of ecosystem diversity.

Dear Marco Cantonati,

Thank you so much for the useful link.

Regards,

MO.

Following

Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG, An example of a combination of these concepts is the field of knowledge known as biodiversity of ecosystems. The importance of natural biodiversity on planet Earth is also studied in context to evolving ecosystems. In addition, the explanation of the essence and richness of biodiversity occurring on Earth can be fully explained precisely using research in the field of ecosystem biodiversity, i.e. cooperating and competing with many species of flora and fauna. Research on the analysis of processes, relationships, etc. found in the biodiverse ecosystem of many species of flora and fauna cooperating and competing provide knowledge about very complex biological systems. This knowledge can be an inspiration for conducting similar research in other fields of knowledge. Nature conservation programs should also cover ecosystem biodiversity. This is important because the most biodiverse ecosystems are currently being degraded on a large scale. An example is the increasing fires of tropical forests, which are characterized by a high level of biodiversity in tropical forest ecosystems. In these fires a significant part of the biodiversity of planet Earth is lost year after year. It is urgent to develop systems to protect the biodiversity of natural, unique ecosystems, which include tropical forest ecosystems found in, inter alia, the Amazon and other regions of the subtropics.

Best wishes

These two are closely interlinked and interdependent.

This link might of some help to you: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/alter-net/former-ss/2009/10.09.2009/10.9.-haines-young/literature/haines-young-potschin_2009_bes_2.pdf

Thank you so much Dr. Cantonati. The link is very useful.

Useful information from prof. Prokopowicz and prof. H.K.Paul. I appreciate the useful links.

I agree with prof. Dariusz Prokopowicz

Biodiversity is an essential component of all ecosystems. It plays role food webs, trophic dynamics, ecosystem diversity, biological productivity and finally adds economic value to ecosystems. It maintains health and functioning of an ecosystem.

Biological diversity provides stability to the ecosystem.

Biodiversity is considered as an important factor of ecosystem.

Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem diversity, ecosystem dynamics, production and ecosystem services.

A healthy complete ecosystem supports multiple organisms, rendering it very rich in biodiversity. A healthy one is essentially non polluted, existing in the natural form devoid of wanton degradation by man.

The relationship between biodiversity and natural ecosystems lies in the fact that the basic category of research and the importance of biodiversity regarding various co-existing life forms on Earth, including specific species of flora, fauna, fungi and microorganisms concerns the issue of biodiversity in relation to natural ecosystems.

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The latter begets the former and vice-versa