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Explain why entering an interglacial period resulted in an increase in biodiversity on Earth. in a paragraph

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Explain why entering an interglacial period resulted in an increase in biodiversity on Earth. When the ice age ended and glaciers retreated the more hospitable grasslands and forests developed hosted greater biodiversity (during an ice age the conditions on Earth favor glaciers and cold deserts over more hospitable environments).

An interglacial period is the warmer period of time between ice ages where glaciers retreat and sea levels rise. Over the last 450,000 years, interglacials have lasted approximately 10,000 years.

Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth (in all its forms and interactions). It is the most complex feature of our planet (the most vital).

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We can consider that the era of the global warming in Earth's history started the extinction of a lot of things, a lot of animal species, and a lot of organisms. Biodiversity is at its highest when the temperature gets high. Which results to contradiction of today's research about biodiversity.
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