BIODIVERSITY POTENTIAL TO ENHANCE ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE

At the global scale, ecosystems are changing at an extraordinary rate mainly due to anthropogenic influences, like; global warming and climate change, land- use change and conversion, pollutant dispersion and biodiversity reduction. Biodiversity governance directly affects ecosystem structural characteristics including its resilience capacity, which in turn shape provision of ecosystem goods and services to humanity. Biodiversity substantially contributes to ecosystem resilience. To identify environmental resilience on biodiversity potential, population trend and intraspecific and interspecific diversity using ecosystems structural characteristics is a rational approach. This research paper indicates, securing ecosystem resilience require a comprehensive and interconnected approach to biodiversity conservation. Any shift in biodiversity abundance and distribution affect ecosystem productivity and substantially challenge our ability to care for ecosystem health as well as human well-being. Addressing the data gaps is decisive for finding variations in socio- ecological arrangements, and providing better information to policy- makers to achieve better resiliency programs. The result clearly indicates, the biodiversity potential, enhances ecosystem services, hence would promote the resilience capacity of the environment.