Sentences with phrase «a global biodiversity»

The Coffee Conservation Award will be presented annually to recognize farms making a significant contribution to global biodiversity preservation.

«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), for instance, is a platform to collect and make huge amounts of biodiversity data accessible.

To appreciate the global biodiversity catastrophe, you don't need to go to Madagascar or Sarawak.

With global biodiversity continuing to decline, conservationists have started paying people to leave forests, watersheds and wildlife intact

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.

Although tempting to conclude that human activities thus benefit as well as deplete global biodiversity, the authors stress that extinct wild species can not simply be replaced with newly evolved ones, and that nature conservation remains just as urgent.

As climate change and biological invasions continue to impact global biodiversity, scientists at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado - Boulder have recently published work that suggests that the way organisms move to new areas, or range expansion, can be impacted directly by evolutionary changes.

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

Unlike previous urban biodiversity research, this study looks beyond the local impacts of urbanization and considers overall impacts on global biodiversity.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

If implemented now, active conservation measures could help to avert this global biodiversity catastrophe, both in Jamaica and in the many other global biodiversity hotspots that are threatened by invasive species.

This find is a result of five years of extensive explorations in the Western Ghats global biodiversity hotspot in India.

The Aichi targets are part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 - 2020, adopted under the CBD, to assess progress in halting global biodiversity loss.

Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

The models used in this research come from the Wallace Initiative, a near decade long partnership between the Tyndall Centre at UEA, eResearch at James Cook University, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and WWF.

Participants are encouraged to submit their observations to iNaturalist or to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and contribute to biodiversity research efforts.

To help him spend the # 6 million made available for the new Darwin Initiative on global biodiversity over the next three years, Britain's environment secretary Michael Howard this week announced the formation of an advisory committee.

Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals.

The species assessment so far is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of assessing global biodiversity.

Although it makes up only 6 percent of California by area, it contains one - quarter of the species found in the California Floristic Province, a global biodiversity hotspot.

«This will give the Aichi Biodiversity Targets the necessary push,» said Carolina Hazin, BirdLife's global biodiversity policy coordinator in a statement.

«The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation,» Gustavsson said.

A new study finds that major gains in global biodiversity can be achieved if an additional 5 % of land is set aside to protect key species.

The OIST researchers chose to honor Mr. Obama for his prodigious contributions to global biodiversity conservation.

Experts share their priorities for what must be done to make protected areas more effective at conserving global biodiversity

Levels of global biodiversity loss may negatively impact on ecosystem function and the sustainability of human societies, according to UCL - led research.

So far, he says, their contribution to global biodiversity has gone unrecognised because there are only about twenty active marine nematode taxonomists in the world.

In the end, any call to stop collecting voucher specimens will simply fuel the anti-collecting sentiments of people who just don't understand how scientific collecting, taxonomy, museum research or global biodiversity really work.

He also was an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Land - Use Change and Forestry, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and a coordinating lead author in the recently published Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

It is one thing to raise sea levels by several metres, ravage climates, devastate human civilisation and wipe out half of global biodiversity, but a hydrogen sulphide world is an order of magnitude more horrific.

For instance, he was a Lead Author in the Working Group II of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Global Biodiversity Outlook.

This is really important because we're talking about a global biodiversity hotspot.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

This will broaden our market and opportunities to have substantial impacts on global biodiversity, food security, and human health.

Coastal ecosystems are critical to maintaining human well - being and global biodiversity.

Biodiversity data, being the digitised data of individual plant occurrences identified to species level, was sourced from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, http://www.gbif.org).

How global is the global biodiversity information facility?

Species recorded in terms of individual presence were sourced from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, accessed: December 2010, Yesson et al., 2007).

We constructed algorithms for plant distribution on a global scale, using field - based data of individual plant occurrences for consequent numbers from the publicly stored multiple - interface portal of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org, accessed December 2010).

Understanding and mitigating the impact of invasive mammal predators is essential for reducing the rate of global biodiversity loss.

Feral cats are a major driver of global biodiversity loss, contributing to 26 % of bird, mammal and reptile extinctions.

Invasive mammalian predators («invasive predators» hereafter) are arguably the most damaging group of alien animal species for global biodiversity (1 ⇓ — 3).

«In order to preserve this diverse ecosystem — recognized as one of the 25 global biodiversity «hot spots» by the Nature Conservancy — the entire pathway of the creek needs to be restored.»

Its mission is to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

It covers a total area of over 890 square kilometers, hosts 390 different species of corals, is a center of marine global biodiversity and -LSB-...]

An elegiac commemoration of habitat loss and ecological collapse, her digital artwork harnesses the power of the internet to spread awareness of imminent threats to global biodiversity.

come what may for the children, coming generations, global biodiversity, the environment and Earth's body.