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megadiverse

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  • adjective Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity

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From mega- +‎ diverse

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Examples

  • He is currently working on research funded by the National Science Foundation to understand why New Guinea, called a megadiverse region, has such a high level of biodiversity.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The term "megadiverse" was created to describe those countries that "account for a high percentage of the world's biodiversity by virtue of containing very large numbers of species."

    Bill Chameides: Where Nature Does Her DNA Banking 2010

  • Identifying megadiverse countries instead of regions is spatially courser and concentrates biodiversity over a larger percentage of the globe: collectively the 17 nations cover about 40 percent of the world's non-glacial land area.

    Bill Chameides: Where Nature Does Her DNA Banking 2010

  • In 2000 the UN Environment Programme identified17 megadiverse countries, which hold some 60-70 percent of the world's species [pdf].

    Bill Chameides: Where Nature Does Her DNA Banking 2010

  • California's biological riches are one reason the United States is considered a megadiverse country, and yet hundreds of the state's species are threatened or endangered.

    Bill Chameides: Where Nature Does Her DNA Banking 2010

  • What we do know is that we're hemorrhaging habitat in megadiverse tropical rainforests and elsewhere, and that when habitat disappears, so do species and genetically distinct populations.

    Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: The Crisis Nobody's Talking About 2010

  • The fair and equitable of benefits arising from the access to, use and management of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge must be assured as a way to stimulate social and economic development, as well as the adding of value and the processing of bio diversity - based resources in megadiverse countries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The fair and equitable of benefits arising from the access to, use and management of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge must be assured as a way to stimulate social and economic development, as well as the adding of value and the processing of biodiversity - based resources in megadiverse countries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The megadiverse Yasuni park, the largest national park in this South American country, was declared a world biosphere reserve by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) in 1989.

    IPS Inter Press Service Gonzalo Ortiz 2010

  • Ecuador's innovative plan to keep some 850 million barrels of oil underground and avoid nearly 410 million tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide was heralded as a first step forward for the planetary protection of megadiverse areas.

    ENS 2010

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  • MaryW commented on the word megadiverse

    For the first half-hour that Edna Molewa, the honorable minister of environmental affairs (South Africa), speaks, we hear words like "bioprospecting" but not words like "biodiversity." To bioprospect is to scout out "green gold," plants and animals of commercial value.

    "We need to improve the infrastructure of our national parks, to facilitate bioprospecting" says the minister. This is in the spirit of the "green economy" and "job creation," important buzzwords in the country's "new sustainable economy." South Africa, one of the 17 megadiverse countries—those that together account for 70 percent of Earth's biodiversity—is just one of many nations with recent bioprospecting legislation.

    Katarzyna Nowak, "Rhinos Under the Gun," American Scholar, Summer 2016, p. 6, at p. 9.

    July 2, 2016