Sentences with phrase «affects biodiversity»

Climate change is likewise an indirect driver which affects biodiversity.

The scientists point out that the trend of fewer people living under each roof affects biodiversity in two different ways.

Needed improvements, it says, include more attention to the economic and human rights of traditional cultures and greater grassroots participation in government decisions that affect biodiversity.

In fact, the resolution's wording is restricted to blocking projects that could affect biodiversity.

«Increases in the number of plant - eating tropical fish can profoundly alter ecosystems and lead to barren reefs, affecting the biodiversity of these regions, with significant economic and management impacts.»

In fact, the resolution was worded in a way that placed a moratorium on geoengineering only if it might affect biodiversity.

While researchers around the world have studied the program, little attention has been paid to understanding how the program has affected biodiversity until now.

Tree mortality can radically transform ecosystems, affect biodiversity, harm local economies, and pose fire risks, as well as further increase global warming.

In late 2010, a meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity imposed a moratorium on any form of geoengineering that might affect biodiversity.

The finding promises to complicate assessments of how climate change will affect biodiversity, as well as conservationists» task in preserving it.

«From a management perspective, understanding how climatic events affect biodiversity is critical for the development of science - ba

To this end, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) aims to sensitize the public to the fact that desertification, land degradation and drought dramatically affect biodiversity resident in soil.

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In 2010 the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted decision X / 33 stating that «no climate - related geo - engineering activities that may affect biodiversity take place, until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities.»

He's also right in that almost any activity that humans do can affect biodiversity, including (prominently) not taking action to stop climate change.

In light of such limitations, actual BCDR capabilities likely fall well below the literature estimates, and efforts to maximize carbon sequestration may negatively affect biodiversity and compete with other resource demands.

Recent decades have seen increased conversion of natural forests to pine or eucalyptus monocultures (Zurita et al. 2006), and policy incentives for further land conversion may negatively affect biodiversity (Caparrós and Jacquemont 2003).

However, land clearing can seriously affect biodiversity, ecosystem services, and carbon storage over decades or centuries, discussed by Fargione et al. (2008), Searchinger et al. (2008), and Plevin et al. (2010).

Not exact matches

Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

The management of these agricultural systems can, thus, dramatically affect overall levels of biodiversity, as well as the success of particular species.

There, he studied pollinator interactions and declines throughout Europe and how these declines affect factors such as biodiversity and crop yields.

The team also looked ahead to examine how potential mammal extinctions could affect the world's biodiversity.

Charred landscapes affect hydrological cycles and biodiversity and are more susceptible to things like mudslides.

The fires recurrently affecting Borneo's humid tropical ecosystems have negative influence on the biodiversity and lead to large CO2 emissions, affecting atmospheric composition and regional climate processes.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a historical view of how climate change and the resulting habitat loss can affect Earth's biodiversity.

«The earthworm invasion has altered the biodiversity and possibly functioning of the forest ecosystems, because it affects the entire food web as well as water and nutrient cycles», says Dylan Craven, lead author of the study.

In a project focusing on how climate changes in the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gap.

A landmark review of over 1000 papers documenting ecological change in the United States has found that a shifting climate is affecting agriculture, biodiversity, and land and water resources from the mountains of Alaska to the sands of Death Valley.

«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.»

Will biodiversity be affected evenly across the board, or will some species with particular traits be more likely to vanish?

Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help researchers understand whether unique fauna will be lost from the park due to climate change and contribute to global research attempting to understand how climate change will affect whole ecosystems.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

We humans are affecting nature to a greater and greater degree and this is contributing to the reduction of biodiversity globally.

Menno Schilthuizen, a research scientist at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History, says that the restructuring at Leiden will negatively affect the creation of the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity, which was counting on the scientific expertise of the staff now laid off.

Forest fires can affect both plant and animal biodiversity.

As a result of this spread, various ecosystems have been altered and this fact seriously affects the balance of biodiversity.

But with humans drastically affecting the planet's biodiversity, she says «we really do have to make choices.»

Patricia Wepfer, Dr. Benoit Guénard (currently at the University of Hong Kong), and Prof. Evan Economo from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) unravelled the web of biogeographic components to find the influences that most significantly affect ant communities.

«Climate change risk for half of plant and animal species in biodiversity hotspots: The Amazon, Miombo Woodlands in Southern Africa, and southwest Australia will be among the most affected places in the world, according to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by WWF.»

He and other report authors noted that scientists trying to face threats such as global climate change and the preservation of biodiversity face unwanted input from special interest groups and political impedance, and countries that might be unequally affected by these threats have vastly different ideas of how to handle them.

It found that all of the human - induced changes affected the productivity of the grassland plots, but only those that reduced biodiversity reduced ecosystem stability.

«We know biodiversity loss affects ecosystem function but how it does this is not entirely clear.

The team found that grasslands, savannas and shrublands were most affected by biodiversity loss, followed closely by many of the world's forests and woodlands.

The researchers support restoration of large - reef predators as a way to achieve better balance and biodiversity, but they are not optimistic that this would affect the burgeoning lionfish population.

Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.

It is now widely recognized that climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity are interconnected; not only through the effects of climate change on biodiversity and land management, but also through the changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning that affect climate change.

Global warming affects more than just plant biodiversity - it even alters the way plants grow.

The projects aims to give us further knowledge in areas as diverse as coral reefs ecosystem, the dietary composition in wildlife and domestic animals over the last 50 000 years, the effects of antibiotic exposure on microbial ecosystems, and changes in biodiversity that might have an effect on or are affected by climate change.

They will answer the driving question: What factors are considered when designing a water filter in response to a change in biodiversity that affects ecosystem services?

Part 2 also builds on students understanding about how changes in biodiversity affect ecosystem services.