Question: Who is the author of the biodiversity research paper?
Answer: Bruce A. Wilcox

Question: Who commissioned the biodiversity research paper?
Answer: International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

Question: At what event was the biodiversity research paper presented?
Answer: 1982 World National Parks Conference

Question: What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"?
Answer: 1992

Question: What model correlates much better than the hyperbolic model?
Answer: the Phanerozoic

Question: What model is widely used in macrosociology?
Answer: hyperbolic model

Question: What models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order positive feedback?
Answer: exponential and logistic models

Question: What model implies a second-order positive feedback?
Answer: Hyperbolic model

Question: What can be accounted for by a feedback between diversity and community structure complexity?
Answer: The hyperbolic character of biodiversity growth

Question: What has some responsibility for offering variety in what we eat?
Answer: Interspecific crop diversity

Question: What is the variety of alleles within a single species?
Answer: Interspecific crop diversity

Question: When do we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new?
Answer: If a crop fails in a monoculture

Question: What can destroy a wheat crop?
Answer: a pest

Question: What type of a society primarily grows monocultures?
Answer: agricultural society

Question: What percentage of biodiversity has the planet lost since 1970
Answer: 52%

Question: What year was they study done by the World Wildlife Fund?
Answer: 2014

Question: What percentage accounts for the terrestrial wildlife gone?
Answer: 39%

Question: What percentage accounts for the marine wildlife gone?
Answer: 39%

Question: What percentage accounts for the freshwater wildlife gone?
Answer: 76%

Question: In which year was the study published that found biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who conducted the 2007 study?
Answer: National Science Foundation

Question: What can cause a break down of a biodiversity system?
Answer: If any one type is removed from the system

Question: Where are the most threatened ecosystems found?
Answer: in fresh water

Question: What may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces?
Answer: an introduced species

Question: Where does the Prunus spinosa leaf much sooner?
Answer: In Belgium

Question: What animal can its feeding habits disturbed by the Prunus spinosa?
Answer: leaves endemic and other local species unable to compete with the exotic species and unable to survive

Question: What species struggle to with the introduction of new species?
Answer: endemic and other local species

Question: What types of new species can be introduced?
Answer: The exotic organisms may be predators, parasites

Question: What plays a vital role in harbouring floral and faunal species?
Answer: The forests

Question: How many endemic floral species do forests harbor?
Answer: 5150

Question: How many endemic faunal species do forests harbor?
Answer: 1837

Question: What types of animals and plans are confined to a specific geographical area?
Answer: endemic species

Question: What types of activities are granted rights in reserved forests?
Answer: hunting and grazing

Question: What global agreement gives sovereign national rights over biological resources?
Answer: the Convention on Biological Diversity

Question: What agreement commits countries to conserve biodiversity?
Answer: the Convention on Biological Diversity

Question: What agreement commits countries to develop resources for sustainability?
Answer: the Convention on Biological Diversity

Question: What is the process of collecting natural products?
Answer: bioprospecting

Question: What can typically cause mass extinctions?
Answer: Rapid environmental changes

Question: What percentage of species is estimated to be extinct?
Answer: More than 99 percent

Question: How many species have ever lived on earth?
Answer: over five billion species

Question: How many species currently live on earth?
Answer: Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million,

Question: What is the estimated weight of the total amount of related DNA base pairs on Earth?
Answer: 50 billion tonnes

Question: Which era included a rapid growth period?
Answer: the Cambrian explosion

Question: The Phanerozoic era covers what time period?
Answer: the last 540 million years

Question: In which era, did the first phylum of multicellular organisms appear?
Answer: the Cambrian explosion

Question: What type of diversity showed an overall exponential trend?
Answer: vertebrate diversity

Question: In which event did the rainforests collapsed in the carboniferous?
Answer: the Permian-Triassic extinction event

Question: Who describes the "Evil Quartet"?
Answer: Jared Diamond

Question: What describes habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions?
Answer: Evil Quartet

Question: What describes Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting?
Answer: HIPPO

Question: What is the most authoritative classification in use today?
Answer: IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats

Question: What funding organization uses the IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats?
Answer: the World Wildlife Fund

Question: What can threaten endemic species with extinction?
Answer: genetic pollution

Question: What are another names for genetic pollution?
Answer: uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping

Question: What causes genetic pollution?
Answer: either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species

Question: What are are side-effects of introduction and invasion?
Answer: Hybridization and introgression

Question: What behavior causes swamping of a gene pool?
Answer: The abundant species can interbreed with the rare species

Question: What is the estimate age of the Earth?
Answer: about 4.54 billion years old

Question: What era contains the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth?
Answer: the Eoarchean Era

Question: What is the name of the era that predated life on Earth?
Answer: Hadean Eon

Question: Where were the billion year old microbial mat fossils found?
Answer: Western Australia

Question: Where were the 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered?
Answer: Western Greenland

Question: What suggests that the last few million years featured the greatest biodiversity in history?
Answer: The fossil record

Question: Why are some scientists uncertain about the fossil record?
Answer: how strongly the fossil record is biased by the greater availability and preservation of recent geologic sections.

Question: What is the estimate variation of the present global macroscopic species diversity?
Answer: from 2 million to 100 million

Question: What appears increase continually in the absence of natural selection?
Answer: Diversity

Question: What are two types of Agricultural diversity?
Answer: ‘planned’ diversity or ‘associated’ diversity

Question: What type of diversity includes the crops which a farmer has encouraged, planted or raised?
Answer: Planned diversity

Question: What type of diversity arrives uninvited?
Answer: associated diversity

Question: What type of diversity includes herbivores and pathogens?
Answer: associated diversity

Question: What is becoming an international political issue?
Answer: Biodiversity's relevance to human health

Question: What issue is closely linked with changes in biodiversity?
Answer: climate change

Question: What changes in biodiversity have an effect on the climate?
Answer: changes in populations and distribution of disease vectors, scarcity of fresh water, impacts on agricultural biodiversity and food resources