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biodiversity A portmanteau term, which gained popularity in the late 1980s, used to describe all aspects of biological diversity, especially including species richness, ecosystem complexity, and genetic variation.

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Â© A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

biodiversity A portmanteau term, which gained popularity in the late 1980s, that describes all aspects of biological diversity, especially including species richness, ecosystem complexity, and genetic variation.

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