Although we identify ecosystems by these simple names, each one is a series of complex relationships between the plant and animal life and the climate and physical surroundings of the particular area or region. Species diversity is the differences between living things that make them distinct from each other. A dog is different from a fish, which is different from a beetle. Species diversity, allows us to identify distinct life forms that we call species. An ecosystem is a complex association of many species of life.
Genetic diversity is diversity within each species.
If we look at the human family, each one of us is different from each other, although we are all of the human species, homo sapiens . We can identify races, groups and individuals among us because of our different genetic makeup. Biodiversity includes all these different aspects of plants, animals and ecosystems that we consider the biological or living things on earth. Back to Top 2. There is global realization that our biological resources are being over-used, polluted and destroyed at alarming rates, by us the human population.