The phrase "a source of biodiversity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ecosystems, habitats, or any entity that contributes to the variety of life in a particular area.
Example: "The rainforest serves as a source of biodiversity, hosting countless species of plants and animals."
Alternatives: "a contributor to biodiversity" or "a reservoir of biodiversity".
"The Amazon is Brazil's No. 1 priority from a strategic viewpoint, given its importance to humanity as a source of water, biodiversity and food production," Gen. Eduardo Dias da Costa Villas Boas, chief of the Amazon Military Command, said in a telephone interview.
Our work highlights the complex dynamics of speciation and range expansions within southern areas during the last glacial cycle, and points to the often neglected role of North Africa as a source of European biodiversity.
Particularly, the homologous recombination that occurs during meiosis (crossing over) has vital importance as a means of genetic variability [ 2] and therefore constitutes a main source of biodiversity.
They can be a large source of biodiversity for deserts, as they can contain more species than the surrounding vascular plant community (Rosentreter 1986).
The present results indicate how key biodiversity areas of the wild V. myrtillus species could be individualized as a useful source of biodiversity for future ecological studies and breeding purposes.
Rare breeds of livestock are an important source of biodiversity in the agricultural sector.
Small-scale landscape elements, such as ditch banks are an important remaining source of biodiversity in many agricultural landscapes, including the Western Peat District in the Netherlands.
The philosophical issues concerning biodiversity surrogacy, phylogenetic inference, and species inference are all relevant to a new, and controversial, source of biodiversity information — DNA barcoding.
The miombo woodlands are of major significance in Tanzania, as a source of livelihood, in supporting biodiversity and maintaining the local hydrological cycle [32, 33].
Since the Ribeira Valley holds the largest remaining fragment of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, consisting of 2.1 million hectares, international and national environmental organizations regard Ribeira as a source of natural richness in biodiversity (Ferreira 2004; Santos and Tatto 2008).
