Sentences with phrase «as on biodiversity»

It might include for instance water stress in a specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

It might include for instance water stress in specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

They also tend to ignore solid research and the positive impact that humans sometimes have (such as on biodiversity).

Not exact matches

Further modification to the plans, involving a daylighted creek channel and wildlife access along with the creek flow under 98th ave as part of the project would allow the project to have a positive impact on the natural environment, enhance regional biodiversity, and allow for the re-establishment of an important historical attribute of the City of Edmonton.

An excellent resource on Central Valley coffee growing and biodiversity is Sandra Znajda's York University Master's thesis, «Habitat conservation, avian diversity, and coffee agrosystems in southern Costa Rica,» available as a PDF here.

Experts argue that its dependence on chemical inputs, as well as the monoculture production system can lead to significant biodiversity loss.

The focus is on research on coffee growing (e.g., how shade impacts pests, yield, and biodiversity), as well as topics such as the economics of various certifications.

Cristina Grandi, IFOAM Food Security Campaigner, presented a poster on the «Benefits of organic farming systems» examining environmental, economic and social aspects as well as data on soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, energy efficiency, yields, profitability, nutrition and employment.

Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extincbiodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extincBiodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

This study radiotracked several species of resident forest birds in the Coto Brus province of southern Costa Rica, now «dominated by sparsely - shaded coffee farms» — recall that in my post on coffee growing in Costa Rica that most farms, including those marketed as «shade» coffee, have few shade trees of only a couple of species, and lack the structural complexity necessary for true biodiversity preservation.

I'll focus, as usual, on issues surrounding biodiversity and habitat on coffee farms.

The National Biodiversity Date Centre and Bord Bia have launched a Framework for Businesses as part of the All - Ireland Pollinator Plan, which identifies actions that companies can take to help protect pollinators and the livelihoods of farmers who rely on -LSB-...]

Biodiversity issues based on measurable performance are more and more important as a basis for subsidies and, at least in some countries, for consumer decisions for buying organic products.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

A particular emphasis will be on how BASC's Green Shoots programme can be further developed so that its members will be able to contribute to monitoring and conserving habitats and species as part of the Government's Biodiversity 2020 programme.

Posed as an important site for the maintenance of national security, this nearly 2000 - mile expanse is also one that bears biodiversity and ecosystem significance on both sides of the border.This panel seeks to better understand the intersection of science and technology with national security, human rights, environmental and cultural resources along U.S. - Mexico border.

The report is part of India's obligatory response as a signer of the Convention on Biodiversity.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

That report highlighted the UN Convention on Biodiversity as a potential tool with which to regulate gene drives, including how, when and even whether they are deployed.

Several countries with the richest biodiversity, such as Brazil, are this week refusing to sign up to new targets unless there is also a deal on sharing the cash benefits from the exploitation of their genetic resources by western corporations such as drugs companies.

Other priorities include understanding phenomena of complex networks such as malware propagation and new models of cybersecurity based on biological concepts such as biodiversity and immunity.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

As Earth enters the Anthropocene epoch, its biodiversity wobbles on the precipice of disaster — and island species have been hit especially hard.

They have just launched a $ 6 million effort to study the impacts of BECCS on such things as local food production, water use, and biodiversity.

Scientists should concentrate on biodiversity «hot spots» such as New Zealand, which is home to large numbers of species found nowhere else, and on little - known groups of organisms such as fungi and bacteria, he advised.

Even greater pressure will be placed on the continent's biodiversity as the current African population of 1.25 billion people is set to double to 2.5 billion by 2050.

Their consumption of oxygen could create hypoxic zones and have «a serious influence on biodiversity at those times as well,»

A small mammal that likes to feast on a soybean pest in Brazil's Cerrado illustrates how preserving this savanna landscape is good for farms as well as biodiversity

As soil erosion has huge impacts on ecosystems, food production, drinking water, carbon stocks and biodiversity, the EU has called for quantitative assessments of soil rates at EU level, and put soil protection at the heart of its environmental agenda.

As the method can be automated, it might be possible to obtain data on biodiversity in an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution in the future.

Rochet has run theoretical models on the effects of fishing practices and has indeed found that selective fishing can negatively impact biodiversity and create ripples in the food web as the balance between predator and prey is upset.

«Scientists have developed indicators for biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts on biodiversity.

Achieving this goal is imperative for not just for nature but for humanity, as millions of people depend on marine biodiversity for important and valuable services.»

Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»

Based on their findings, the researchers show that the biodiversity crisis is real and stressed the need to include assessments of invertebrates in order to obtain a more realistic picture of the current situation, known widely as the «sixth mass extinction.»

For experimentalists, like us, working with colleagues and natural history collections at the Field Museum has been particularly important as they bring key insights on evolution and biodiversity.»

When the small farmers largely embrace monoculture as an agricultural system, they put a great deal of strain on the environment and on biodiversity.

«NASA backed us on research related to the biodiversity and ecology of Arctic marine mammals, as well as the development of metrics for the loss of sea ice, their habitat.»

Said lead author Dr. James Watson of WCS and University of Queensland, and current President of the Society for Conservation Biology: «Achieving CBD's goals are imperative for nature and humanity, as people depend on biodiversity for important and valuable services.

As a fellow, Adams worked on a research program connecting forest cover and biodiversity to human health.

The Doñana Biological Station, which has won national recognition as a center of excellence, focuses on studying and protecting the biodiversity of Doñana National Park, one of Europe's largest natural parks.

In works such as The Diversity of Life (1992), Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), and The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006), he pleads for a union of science, religion, and the humanities to protect the biodiversity on which all earthly life depends.

Representatives from 138 countries had met in Cartagena to work out a Biosafety Protocol, as called for by the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.

«We show that a direct consideration of these other biodiversity facets identifies different regions as high - priority for conservation than a focus on species does, and more effectively safeguards functions or evolutionary heritage,» Jetz said.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

«It's worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed as a safe limit,» said Professor Andy Purvis of the Natural History Museum, London, who also worked on the study.

If you're looking for hallucinatory life - forms, as well as some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, head for the nearest beach.

Biodiversity will collapse everywhere on Earth if humans carry on as we are, according to 550 scientists from 100 countries.

William Sutherland, a population biologist at the University of East Anglia, has shown that the places on Earth with the most biodiversity are the most linguistically diverse as well and that languages are even more at risk for extinction than are birds or mammals.