"as much biodiversity" is a perfectly usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in sentences that refer to the amount of biodiversity in a certain area or location, such as: "The rainforest has as much biodiversity as any other tropical ecosystem."
But it was the butter mountains and wine lakes as much as concern for biodiversity that finally stimulated a counter-revolution and began to pave the way towards schemes of environmental stewardship that are becoming visible to visitors to the countryside.
In the long-term, fences may ultimately prove to be as much a threat to biodiversity as the threats they are meant to exclude, and a new research agenda should arise to ensure that conservation fences do not remain a permanent part of the landscape.
Yet, the few available data paint a more complex picture wherein some intensively managed timberlands may impact biodiversity as much as, or more than, human settlements [14].
If 'genetic' monitoring was reduced to barcoding, it would likely fail in describing biodiversity just as much as purely 'ecological' monitoring does.
Otherwise, the new biodiversity strategy will be as much of a paper tiger as the last one.
At the same time, the indigenous peoples who generally inhabit those tropical biodiversity "hot spots" account for as much as 60percentt of the world's 6,000 spoken languages, according to the British ethnolinguist Suzanne Romaine of Oxford University.
"It costs money to save biodiversity, but it's not as much as you'd think," says Bateman. "That's pretty good news".
How much biodiversity we see, such as the number of bird species recorded in a wetland, increases both as a larger area is surveyed, and as the same area is surveyed for a longer time.
Roles such as oil palm and logging concessionaires, government, local NGO (promoting biodiversity conservation) representatives were played by the villagers, matching as much as possible the real life roles of external agents.
