How to Use biodiversity in a Sentence

biodiversity

noun
  • These creatures too are just a natural part of garden biodiversity.
    Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Planting a mix enhances biodiversity and gives you a longer season of wildflower blooms, Becker said.
    Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The area was part of a biodiversity hotspot known as the Western Ghats.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • The goal of the treaty is to reverse biodiversity losses.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The host of the special is all about finding ways to preserve the biodiversity that dead zones can harm.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
  • And the beehives, hedges and forests that help maintain biodiversity.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • California is one of the world’s top 10 biodiversity hot spots, with plants that grow nowhere else, Ramirez said.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • While extinctions on Earth might be old hat, this is the first threat to biodiversity caused by a single species living on the planet itself.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • It is thought to be the third biggest driver of biodiversity loss after changes in land and sea use and overexploitation of resources.
    Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Yet, taking down fences, clearing paths and opening the spaces to the public risks hurting the very biodiversity that those who descend on the Little Belt are no doubt drawn to.
    Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • As a result, Earth is on the brink of becoming uninhabitable and is in the throes of a biodiversity crisis.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 July 2024
  • Costa Rica is home to 30 national parks and about five percent of the world's biodiversity.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • In rocky regions around the world, groups are working to preserve and promote the craft of dry stone walling, touting the benefits to biodiversity and low carbon footprint.
    Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
  • With each successive recording, the program is able to better identify all the birds in the area and help create a detailed database of the total biodiversity in the area.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 13 June 2023
  • Loss of habitat is the top driver of a staggering global decline in biodiversity, the variety of life on earth.
    Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • For Page, who gets to call the ocean her office, the orcas add to the rich biodiversity found off the coast: gray whales during winter and spring, humpbacks during spring and fall, blue whales – the world’s largest mammal – during summer.
    Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The region is also rich in biodiversity and is a popular area for hikers.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Areas that were once rich in biodiversity are now overrun by salt cedar, an invasive plant that sucks up any excess water that flows downstream or that falls from the sky.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • This, on the heels of dismissing Tim Ashton, a grower of heritage wheat, for his low yields, despite soil and biodiversity improvements.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
  • Siegert and Hogg's team looked at several factors including heat waves, loss of sea ice, collapse of ice shelves and impacts on biodiversity.
    Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Siegert and Hogg’s team looked at several factors including heat waves, loss of sea ice, collapse of ice shelves and impacts on biodiversity.
    Melina Walling, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The zone is also rich in biodiversity that researchers are scrambling to understand.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Handing land back to nature is no silver bullet for either the world’s climate or biodiversity ills.
    WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The iconic cranes also helped encourage people to care for the area and its biodiversity — including many tiny lifeforms, like more than 1,000 species of insects.
    Kristen Pope, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2024
  • In the face of catastrophic issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss, Tree makes a case for letting nature return to itself.
    Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Luckily the islands have begun the task to ensure their biodiversity will be safeguarded for the future.
    Andrew Nelson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • These compact turtles live in the succulent karoo, a biodiversity hotspot in western South Africa.
    Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Alfonsina is the singular vision of the chef Jorge León, who returned to his hometown to explore the essence of Oaxaca’s biodiversity in his recipes.
    Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Addressing both biodiversity loss in specific regions and global climate change is imperative, Goodall stresses.
    Vladan Shir, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Overall, while not primary pollinators, wasps do support plant reproduction and biodiversity.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024

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