The phrase "reduction of biodiversity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the causes of species loss due to human activity and when discussing the impacts of reduced biodiversity. For example: "The reduction of biodiversity due to deforestation is continuing to have a significant and negative impact on global ecosystems."
The disruption of eco-system services, such as reduction of biodiversity, is reflected in a reduction of eco-exergy.
This practice has come under scrutiny by conservationists who perceive a reduction of biodiversity due to preferential planting of exotic trees.
These are characterized by degradation of the hydrological cycle, emission of nutrients and pollutants, which result in a drastic reduction of biodiversity and ecosystem services for societies.
In 2002, most of the treaty's signers announced a set of goals to achieve a "significant reduction" of biodiversity loss by 2010, including protecting 10 percent of their national habitats and making substantial financial commitments to conservation.
The US, for example, underwent many environmental tragedies throughout the last century, including the great Mississippi flood of 1927, the Great Plains dust storms dubbed the Dust Bowl in the "dirty thirties", the Cuyahoga river fire of 1969, and the partial eradication of birds and reduction of biodiversity by noxious pesticides in the mid 20th century.
A 2006 United Nations' report called livestock a substantial contributor to "climate change and air pollution, to land, soil, and water degradation and to the reduction of biodiversity". But worldwide demand for meat continues to rise and production is projected to double by 2050, mostly driven by developing countries where per capita consumption has doubled since 1980.
Tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions and reductions of biodiversity.
Major threats are therefore crop yield reduction, loss of biodiversity and prevention of forest regeneration.
In this connection, the paper addresses in particular the reduction of farmland biodiversity, groundwater contamination and harm to human health.
Wine production in most countries is based on the use of commercial strains leading to the colonisation of the wineries by these strains with the consequent reduction of autochthonous biodiversity.
The effect could be the reduction of Earth's biodiversity to half its present amount by the end of the century.
