Conservation Biology and Biodiversity

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Across
  1. 3. variety of ecosystems
  2. 6. number of ecological niches
  3. 7. disappearance of a species from Earth; local extinction is the disappearance of a species from a region
  4. 10. concept originated by Norman Myers to describe a geographical region with a large number of endemic species and a large percentage of degraded habitat
Down
  1. 1. variety of metabolic compounds in an ecosystem
  2. 2. species that has been introduced to an ecosystem in which it did not evolve
  3. 3. number of species becoming extinct over time, sometimes defined as extinctions per million species–years to make numbers manageable
  4. 4. species native to one place
  5. 5. molecular genetic method for identifying a unique genetic sequence to associate with a species
  6. 8. variety of a biological system, typically conceived as the number of species, but also applying to genes, biochemistry, and ecosystems
  7. 9. large animals