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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Keutamaan serta besarnya saiz kajian Biodiversiti


Objective Dasar Biodiversiti Negara yang ketiga adalah

untuk membekalkan sumber makanan kepada rakyat…




The current magnitude/ besarnya saiz kajian… of Biodiversity


An understanding of the magnitude of biodiversity at all levels is crucial to its conservation, management and utilization. The scale of biodiversity is immense, and while estimates of its magnitude are being improved, investment is required to bridge crucial knowledge gaps and synthesize existing information.

The magnitude of biodiversity can be examined at scales ranging from the ecosystem and habitat, through the organismal, down to the genetic levels

System designed for use at the global level are of limited value at scales important for conservation purposes


As total site inventories are not available, ecological classification are an important component in the assessment of sites for conservation purposes


Organismal biodiversity can be assessed at different levels of the classification hierarchy from kingdoms ang phyla, through orders, families, genera, and species, right down to the infraspecific and generic level
Different uses of the category species , and the importance of phylogenetic divergence, mean that organism diversity cannot be measured objectively solely by differences in species number; the species, although the most commonly used unit of biodiversity, is not a standard unit of biodiversity measurement
The working figure of 1.75 million species is the current best estimate for the number of living ( non- fossil… species currently known to science
An estimated 90 % of described species have never been included in regional accounts of biotas, or in identification manuals or modern monographs
The described species represent only a small proportion of species on earth, and a working estimate of 13.6 million is adopted here as the overall total that exists; this suggests that only 13% of the species on earth have yet been described
Molecular and genetic studies demontratrate that there is enormous diversity at the infraspecific level in almost every examined
A high amount of genetic variability is found in most species. For animals, variability is on average greater within invertebrate than vertebrate species, which have more subdivided populations. For mollusks, amphians, reptiles and mammals, about 25-30% of this variation is due tu genetic difference between population, whereas for birds and insects which have higher gene flow between population, this figure is only 8-10%
In plant species , there is a wider range of variability between difference species. Breeding system is the main determinant of the pattern genetic variability in plants
An indication of the extent of genetic diversity present within a species can be obtained from domesticated organism; for example seven separate vegetables are derived from the single species Brassica oleracea, and more than 800 breeds of sheep derive from Ovis aries










Halaman 111 Buku Global biodiversity Assessment unep united nation environment programme

Cambridge university press
Executive editor v h Heywood
First publish 1995
Isbn 0 521 56403 hardback
Isbn 0 521 56481 6 paperback

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