Biology A-Level
Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
What Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
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Reference: OCR
Reasons concerning direct and indirect value to people, such as medicines derived from wild species, food crops and their wild relatives, timber, fisheries, tourism and the insurance value of genetic diversity.
Topics that use Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Biodiversity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Aesthetic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Climate change
- Distinguishing reasons from conservation methods
- Ecological reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Estimating species richness and abundance
- Ex situ conservation methods
- genetic diversity
- Heterozygosity
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