Biodiversity in the Oil Palm Plantation
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment by United Nations (2005) defines biodiversity as the diversity among living organisms in terrestrial, marine other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. The loss of biodiversity has garnered a significant amount of media and scientific attention both negative and positive in the past decade, with a focus on Southeast Asia and other tropical regions. One of the main reasons of this attention is due to the richer biodiversity in these areas compared to the temperate and arctic regions in the north or south of the equator. The number of species increases at the Mediterranean latitude as the altitude decreases and vice versa.