Megadiverse

Quick meaning: Megadiverse is an adjective meaning (chiefly ecology) Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.

Meaning

(chiefly ecology) Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.

Example Sentences

Mexico is one of the 12 megadiverse countries. While 1.3% of the land in the world, it hosts about 12% of the known terrestrial biota with very high endemicity.

[…] Australia is the only developed nation, with the exception of Mexico, among the dozen or so regions which have been recognized as ‘megadiverse’, that is, having extensive total biodiversity.

This method is applied to the case of New Caledonia, a megadiverse island with all locations equally rich in microendemic species and where phylogenetic diversity is especially helpful to determine conservation priorities among sites.

In megadiverse regions such as the Andes-Amazon, managing these matters and developing wise programs for conserving natural resources is a huge undertaking, requiring the efforts of an array of individuals with widely diverse expertise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hyperdiverse, biodiverse, geodiverse, phytodiverse, microdiverse, eurybiomic.

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