1.   North Carolina is an area of astonishing biological diversity.

2.   Scientists interested in biological diversity, and the evolutionary reasons for it, already see it in that light.

3.   The Amazonian rainforests make up one third of all rainforests and are vitally important in terms of biological diversity.

4.   The Spice of Life Human biological diversity is hardly a new concept.

5.   What all these tropical forests have in common, however, is their astonishing biological diversity.

6.   In summary, time, space, resources, competition and predation, may play a part in explaining the biological diversity of the tropics.

7.   The biological diversity of both flora and fauna in Ukraine is in decline, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

8.   Apart from alarming effects on biological diversity... this will have harmful effects on the Swedish economy.

9.   Alternatively, the most precious biological diversity may be said to lie in places claiming the greatest number of evolutionarily ancient species.

10.   Arguments that species and biological diversity should be preserved for their own sake are not sufficient to counter claims of human primacy, lost jobs or hamstrung development.