Sentences with phrase «about the biodiversity of»

«This tells just how little we still know about the biodiversity of organisms through Earth's history.

You have plenty of time to get informed about the biodiversity of the surrounding.

Bush adiministrution are so worse, they never think about biodiversity of our world.

``... maybe Dyson has a thing or two to learn about the biodiversity of unmanaged ecosystems.»

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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?

Everything we know about population genetics indicates that founding kind pairs would not be capable of generating the necessary genetic diversity to invariably survive, let alone yield present day observable biodiversity.

She writes about the impact of coffee production on birds, biodiversity, and the environment, along with related topics, at Coffee & Conservation, coffeehabitat.com

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.

For instance, CSWA will conduct workshops that inform growers about survey results and the benefits of effective implementation of ecosystem / conservation practices, such as biodiversity protection, watershed restoration, and integrated pest management

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.

Do you care about the availability of this blend, and want to support the birds and biodiversity emblematic of and the purpose behind Bird - Friendly certification?

About 95 percent of this coffee is grown under some type of shade, providing important opportunities for the conservation of biodiversity.

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.

And not just by educating them about the lowly protein, where their meals come from, and the importance of biodiversity.

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 about supporting companies that commit to reversing deforestation, protect communities of wildlife and indigenous people, and support biodiversity.

BASC Northern Ireland Director Tommy Mayne said: «BASC welcomes the opportunity to submit evidence to the Environment Committee and while we welcome some aspects of the Marine Bill which will benefit marine life and biodiversity, we are greatly concerned about certain clauses within the draft Bill that pose a potential threat to wildfowling and other rural activities.

«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.

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

«Preserving biodiversity may hence not just be about loving trees and weeds and birds and bugs; it may also be a tool to stabilize key elements of the Earth system.»

Although the pools are abundant, little is known about their biodiversity — and how that mix may fare under the effects of climate change.

«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.

While little to nothing is known about when the vast majority of butterfly and moth species fly, eat and mate, the study provides a basic and much - needed framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor and curator at the museum's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida.

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.

These assessments, based on reviews of the scientific literature, will answer questions about how much biodiversity is declining and what the implications of extinctions and ecosystem change might be for humanity.

With extinction rates at their highest levels ever and numerous species under threat due to human activity, the findings are a further warning about the consequences of eroding biodiversity.

The debate about the importance of biodiversity to ecosystem health has been simmering for decades.

«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.»

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.

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.

All readers who feel strongly about any of the biodiversity problems that face us should put this to their local MP.

Speaking about the research which has just been published by the Royal Society Luca Börger, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity said: «Our results showed that among long - lived species, a relationship between body mass and survival can be present independently of environmental conditions.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

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.»

December 19, 2016 — What should we be thinking about when we think about the future of biodiversity, conservation and the environment?

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.»

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

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 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.