The phrase "altering biodiversity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or impacts on the variety of life in a particular ecosystem or environment.
Example: "Human activities, such as deforestation and pollution, are significantly altering biodiversity in many regions around the world."
Alternatives: "modifying biodiversity" or "changing biodiversity".
Agricultural intensification is altering biodiversity patterns worldwide.
Now we are causing extinctions more rapidly than ever while altering biodiversity by moving species around.
Invasion by non-native tree species is a major driver of reduction and fragmentation of forest ecosystems, also altering biodiversity components.
This approach also helps clarify the role humans play in altering biodiversity and how evolution can help a species respond to changing conditions, for example, in the tropics.
Alien invasions are one of the critical means by which anthropogenic activities are altering biodiversity, and the direct and indirect effects of biological invasions on ecological processes are manifold.
Deficits in soil P reduce primary production and alter biodiversity.
Such changes would dramatically alter biodiversity patterns state-wide.
Bioaccumulation of SPION and other toxic nanoparticles may reach animals through feed and may alter biodiversity.
These unique species permutations eliminate pseudoreplication [ 43] and allow the generic effects of altered biodiversity to be examined.
There is increasing evidence that human impacts over the past 10 millennia have profoundly and permanently altered biodiversity on land, especially of vertebrates (Schipper et al., 2008; Hoffmann et al., 2010).
That is, observed differences may be due to the impact of the invasion itself, or alternatively, some prior disturbance or change in the system may have altered biodiversity or ecosystem processes and simultaneously promoted the invasion (MacDougall and Turkington 2005).
