Biodiversity – the diversity of all living organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem level – forms the living component of natural capital stock. It is the interactions between biodiversity and non-living natural resources that generate most of the flows that benefit society
Soil can become waterlogged. The water can cut off the air supply to the roots and to the organisms that live in the soil. If the roots do not receive enough oxygen, the plants will die because they rely on oxygen to complete photosynthesis.