Biodiversity and Ecological studies are fundamental to understanding the natural world and addressing the environmental challenges, biodiversity crisis. these fields are deeply interconnected, with ecological principles informing biodiversity assessment and conservation. Biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems. It encompasses the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life. Biodiversity is crucial for the health of the planet and human well-being, providing invaluable ecosystem services: like Food, Water, Air, Soil fertility, climate, disease regulations, cultural, medicinal aesthetic and economical importance. Ecology is the scientific study of the relationships between living organisms, and their physical environment. It explores how organisms interact with each other and with non-living components of their surroundings. Ecology provides the "how" and "why" of natural systems, while biodiversity highlights the "what" that needs protection. The fields of biodiversity and ecological studies are undergoing a profound transformation, in the global biodiversity crisis, characterized by alarming rates of species loss and ecosystem degradation driven an explosion of innovative, modern, interdisciplinary approaches like Digital Technology, Big Data, IoT, Smart Sensors, Predictive Analytics,Citizen Science, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Environmental DNA, species detection and monitoring, integration of GPS, GIS, GRS, image recognition, Bioacoustics, remote sensing, AI & ML in Biodiversity assessment. The future of biodiversity studies lies in even deeper integration of these innovations, moving towards truly trans disciplinary research towards future sustenance.
Nagaraju (Sun,) studied this question.