Sentences with phrase «about biodiversity in»

The artist uses a wide range of materials, including fabric, charcoal, synthetic hair, vellum paper and oil paint, to reflect her concerns about biodiversity in a rapidly growing society.

«That tells us something about biodiversity in general.

The main objectives, apart from helping organic agriculture enhance biodiversity, have been to start cooperation and dialogue between the nature conservation and organic agricultural movements and to spread knowledge about biodiversity in organic agriculture.

Not exact matches

How did all these necessary «systems» come about so as to make not just human life possible, but all the biodiversity of life that is in every «nook and cranny» of the earth?

Read more about the history of chiles in America, and their tenuous relationship with biodiversity and climate change in Chasing Chiles, available at Amazon.

A recent New York Times article, about scientists visiting Aquiares to study, noted the increase in biodiversity as a result of the extensive variety of shade trees and the provision of buffer zones.

We don't know about you but we'd rather support farmers who let their animals free range, encourage biodiversity, don't use harsh chemicals and GM and take pride in providing us with food the way it's meant to be — without traces of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics.

And in the rush to increase production, it caused a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of diverse native trees) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

The huge worldwide surge in demand for coffee has resulted in a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of a diverse understory) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

So forget about the chocolate you ate as a kid and check out these smaller producers, because, as Simran Sethi writes in her book * Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love *, the cacao you're accustomed to has led to a marked decrease in biodiversity in cacao - growing regions.

«It's very beneficial for me to have someone in my group who is so skilled at doing species identification so we can sort out issues about how biodiversity changes with increased temperature and melting,» Wulff says.

These results offer a new perspective on the roles humans play in natural systems, and inform ongoing discussions about land management and biodiversity conservation.

«Understanding how biodiversity responds to climate change in freshwater rock pools could provide critical information about potential patterns of biodiversity change both locally and globally,» Nadeau said.

Such a double whammy of failure in international environment negotiations could effectively mark the end of an era of optimism about environmental diplomacy that began at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, when the original climate and biodiversity conventions were both agreed.

Experimentalists, for instance, may argue that Sankaran's study doesn't say much about the effects of biodiversity loss in the real world, because the researchers didn't add or remove any species.

«We need to start thinking about conservation not just in terms of functional biodiversity loss, but about how our actions will affect the future of evolution itself.»

That is another reason for concern about the worldwide decline in biodiversity, he notes: «The loss of diversity is probably having adverse effects on stability and productivity and the ability of the ecosystem to respond to global climate change.»

Readers in the UK may remember botany lecturer David Bellamy as a leading conservationist and a presenter of television programmes about the environment and biodiversity.

The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really need to know about biodiversity,» says avian systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.»

Natural resource managers and biodiversity experts are becoming increasingly concerned about invasions of weeds such as leafy spurge, which has swept across Western landscapes, and the melaleuca tree, a major threat to ecosystems in Florida.

Under the Carter administration, CEQ (along with the U.S. Department of State) drafted The Global 2000 Report to the President (pdf) in 1980, which proved prescient about a host of environmental issues, from climate change to biodiversity loss.

• In a News Focus article, Kelly Servick wrote about a new research field, soundscape ecology, which uses sounds as a proxy for biodiversity.

Speaking about the policy options emerging from the four regional assessments, Watson said: «Although there are no «silver bullets» or «one - size - fits all» answers, the best options in all four regional assessments are found in better governance, integrating biodiversity concerns into sectoral policies and practices (e.g. agriculture and energy), the application of scientific knowledge and technology, increased awareness and behavioural changes.»

These kind of experiments «tell us a lot about rebuilding a rainforest,» he says, as well as inform us about «what we can do that will help forests recover their biodiversity, carbon storage and other ecological functions in as short a time as possible — and hopefully in a way that roughly approximates the forest that was there originally.»

«With the Earth in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet's biodiversity, even for charismatic groups such as tarantulas.»

Can we make predictions about how biodiversity in these river systems may change?

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

«The gap between what we know and don't know about Earth's biodiversity is still tremendous, but technology is playing a major role in closing it and helping us conserve biodiversity more intelligently and efficiently,» said coauthor Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.

«The future of freshwater biodiversity is inextricably linked to land and water infrastructure management,» writes N LeRoy Poff of Colorado State University in his guest editorial for ESA Frontiers, in which he contemplates whether rivers have changed so much that we need to rethink some of our conceptions about restoration.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

The EBP would focus on the natural world, providing a better understanding of biodiversity by first sequencing in great detail the DNA of a member of each eukaryotic family (about 9000 in all) and eventually generating coarser genomes for the other eukaryotes.

INBio «handled the subject and biodiversity better than any country in the world,» he says that, thanks to INBio, «no other country has developed a national inventory of biodiversity like Costa Rica and no other country has such precise information about the species present in their protected areas.»

To name a few, information about relationships between species can be used to guide the classification of biodiversity, inform conservation policies aimed at protecting threatened species, aid in tracking the spread of pathogens, and can even play a role in the discovery of new medicines.

About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade, technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.

The Review is a super refined weekly web publication curated by subject matter experts from Yale who summarize important research articles from leading natural and social science journals with the hope that people can make more informed decisions using latest research results.The Review launched this week and covers a wide range of topics, like this brief about climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodivbiodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodivBiodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitybiodiversity loss.

Worldwide biodiversity then recovered in several phases throughout a period of about five million years.

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Conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University thinks that Possingham's models make sense in places like Australia, where there is still a lot of intact biodiversity; he has reservations about its use in places where biodiversity is fast declining.

This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.

The specimens contained in the world's natural history museums are the basis for most of what scientists know about biodiversity.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

Bruna says he sees a lot to be concerned about in the report, both from a biodiversity and socioeconomic perspective.

To address the knowledge gap about the globally - relevant ecosystem process of nutrient uptake, researchers worked to identify how different levels of microbial biodiversity influenced in situ phosphorus uptake in the Western Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.

Biodiversity, it states, doesn't have to be just about the number of a species in an ecosystem.

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.

Indeed, the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees, a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.

«The habitats of many chameleon species, and not only, are highly threatened by the ongoing deforestation in Madagascar and we need rapidly to expand our knowledge about the biodiversity, so that suitable conservation measures can be taken,» he stresses.

Earlier this year, Frank Hailer of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and colleagues estimated that polar bears diverged from brown bears 600,000 years ago — a result that itself pushed back the evolutionary record of polar bears by about 450,000 years (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1216424).

To talk about threats to conservation when entire communities are being decimated may seem like a case of misplaced priorities, but loss of biodiversity and the HIV epidemic are closely intertwined, and their effects conspire to keep people living in poverty.