Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub

Biodiversity represents flora and fauna diversity or species richness. In India biodiversity area is large. If we compare the land area then India covers only 2.4 percent of the world but the share of biodiversity of India is 8.1 percent. In India, plant species is 45000, and animal species are 90,000.  According to May’s global estimates, only 22 percent of the total species have been recorded so far. Applying this proportion to India’s diversity figures, we estimate that there are probably more than 1,00,000 plant species and more than 3,00, 000 animal species yet to be discovered and described.