Biodiversity & Conservation

MARINE BIODIVERSITY

Marine biodiversity is an aggregation of highly inter-connected ecosystem components or features, encompassing all levels of biological organization from genes, species, populations to ecosystems, with the diversity of each level having structural and functional attributes (
Marine biodiversity, the variety of life in the ocean and swell, is a critical aspect of all three pillars of sustainable development — profitable, social and environmental — supporting the healthy functioning of the earth and furnishing services that bolster the health, well- being and substance of humanity.

Marine biodiversity is an aggregation of largelyinter-connected ecosystem factors or features, encompassing all situations of natural association from genes, species, populations to ecosystems, with the diversity of each position having structural and functional attributes