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Biogeography vs Biodiversity - What's the difference?

biogeography | biodiversity |

As nouns the difference between biogeography and biodiversity

is that biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of living things while biodiversity is the diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.

biogeography

Noun

  • (uncountable) The study of the geographical distribution of living things
  • The geographical distribution of a particular living thing
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, Brian P. Hedlund & James T. Staley, chapter=Microbial Endemism and Biogeography, Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, editor=Alan T. Bull citation
  • , passage=First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies .}}

    Derived terms

    * palaeobiogeography

    biodiversity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia biodiversity) (biodiversities)
  • (biology) the diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region