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Please note: figures are approximate and derived from various sources.
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After Quentin Wheeler and E.O.Wilson
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| Total British species: | | ~ 88 000 |
| Known total world species: | | ~ 1 770 000 |
| Estimated total world species: | | 5-100 million |
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Biodiversity includes all the different plant, animal, fungus and micro-organism
species worldwide, the genes they contain, and the ecosystems of which they form
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more definitions of 'biodiversity'
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This diagram is based on numbers of species. How do you think it might differ if it was based on:
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