Geography- Factors influencing biodiversity.

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  • Created by: Ashley
  • Created on: 04-12-10 16:25

Factors that effect biodiversity.

Biodiversity is not equally distributed across the planet. there are many things that can effect biodiversity. Physical and human factors are the main factors, and they can be on a local or global scale.

Global physical factors can include climate change, which controls limiting factors such as temperature, light, humidity and nutrient supply. an absence of limiting factors leads to high biodiversity, but where there are lots of limiting factors then biodiversity is usually low, such…

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