Conducting the ecological choir Below-ground biodiversity is found to be important in how the ecology responds to climate change, , says S.Ananthanarayanan. Biodiversity is now recognised as a vital factor in the resilience of the environment. The
nine ‘planetary boundaries’, or the limits within which the world would have to stay to avoid irreversible environmental damage, developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2009, listed the loss of biodiversity as one, along with climate change, chemical
pollution and land use...