A-LevelBiologyBiodiversity and conservationMay/June 2021Paper 4 Q314 Marks
(a) One way to measure global biodiversity is to count the number of species of organisms. Table 3.1 shows estimates for 2009 of the number of species in some taxa of animals. The numbers in brackets are the numbers that were updated in 2019 from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for three intensively studied taxa. [Table 3.1] (b) An analysis in 2019 concluded that twice as many insect species have populations that are decreasing in size compared with chordate species. This analysis focused on developed countries that have large human populations.
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