Level of life
Biosphere
All of Earth's ecosystems together: every place on the planet where life exists.
Biodiversity
The variety of life, from genes to ecosystems. A 2019 global assessment found that around 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction.Source: IPBES, 2019Source: IPBES, 2019
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How Biodiversity connects
Biodiversity is part of
Biodiversity is related to
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Climate change and living things
Warming is moving species ranges: a 2003 analysis found shifts toward the poles averaging 6.1 km per decade and spring events arriving 2.3 days earlier per decade.
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Sources & further reading
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Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating' (opens the original in a new tab)
IPBES (2019). IPBES media release. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Published 2019-05-06.
Announces the 2019 global assessment, including its estimate of around 1 million species threatened with extinction.
Fact sheetIntergovernmental sourceSummary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services (opens the original in a new tab)
IPBES (2019). Zenodo. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Consensus reportIntergovernmental source