Sentences with phrase «between biodiversity»

This multinational effort is being designed to identify biodiversity changes within a reasonable timeframe, to identify possible links between biodiversity trends and anthropogenic stressors, and to make information available and useful to managers in developing strategies for sustainable use of Arctic living resources.

The brief acknowledges that there may be trade - offs between biodiversity and climate change policies but argues these trade - offs can be minimized when mutual benefits are recognized and incorporated into policy design.

This document looks at the relationship between biodiversity and cities and analyses how cities can be involved in protecting the world's species.

Conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods are essential if REDD + is going to work, says the new study, «Understanding Relationships Between Biodiversity, Carbon, Forests and People: The Key to Achieving REDD + Objectives.

«People have been thinking about broader relationships between biodiversity conservation and ecosystems services but I don't think anybody's asked these particular questions before.»

This publication focuses on interactions between biodiversity, climate change and protected areas.

How can the linkage between biodiversity and climate change be a business story?

Contrary to your all caps assertion Greenpa, the relationship between biodiversity and ecological function is equivocal.

Therefore, some conflicts between biodiversity conservation efforts and other development activities still exist.

Over 130 scientists are doing research at BiK - F on the multifarious interactions that occur between biodiversity and climate.

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.

Researchers from several institutes around Europe have now looked into the scientific literature that addresses these global changes to examine the interactions between biodiversity and extreme weather events.

The study presented here highlights current knowledge gaps and provides research recommendations so that ecologists can gain a deeper understanding of the linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a changing world.

Therefore, the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions have to be quantified, in order to predict the consequences of either changing ecosystem functions or decreases in biodiversity.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

They are all part of FunDivEurope, a large - scale project examining the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions in forests.

Explore the connections between biodiversity and ecosystems by treetop canopy walking and ziplining on a guided Eco Adventure Tour.

Not exact matches

Future studies on organic agriculture and other sustainable farming techniques should examine not just economics, but soil quality, biodiversity impacts and other aspects of food production in order to make better comparisons between different forms of agriculture, said Crowder.

The importance of connectivity between coffee and protected areas is tremendous, given the overlap and proximity of biodiversity hotspots and coffee - growing regions (Hardner and Rice 2002) and the importance of shaded coffee in the face of global climate change.

For example, the Institute uses integrated pest management (IPM), which reduced pesticide application by 96 % between 1993 and 2008 and encourages richer natural biodiversity.

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.

Low levels of productivity were a direct result of these conditions, but also as a consequence of low levels of organic matter in the soil (between 0.3 and 1 percent), acidity (pH fluctuating between 4.5 and 5) and low biodiversity (only 2 to 7 plant species were found in the agricultural systems and only 1 to 8 species in the forest systems).

In Sweden, a working group made up of organic farmer groups, nature conservationists, Government agencies and universities has been working since 1997 to strengthen the links between organic agriculture and biodiversity conservation, and they set up biodiversity plans for organic farms.

In the last twenty years, governments also have been gradually moving towards policies aiming at encouraging the links between organic agriculture and biodiversity conservation.

Alliances between technicians and farmers are critical for the generation and dissemination of successful organic agriculture techniques that emphasise the management of biodiversity and the rational use of natural resources.

The reserve is recognized for high biodiversity, with a robust belt of unaltered mangroves and sandy coasts that provide a critical link between terrestrial and marine environments.

Green Shoots in North Wales is a partnership project between the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Environment Agency Wales (EAW), the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru (FWAG Cymru) and the Local Biodiversity Action Plan partnerships in North Wales.

The UK is particularly successful in bringing together shooting and conservation and BASC's head of biodiversity, Ian Danby, who represents UK shooters on the working group and hosted meeting said; «The working group draws together fantastic expertise on conservation and shooting across Europe, from Greece to Finland and many countries in - between.

«One might think there is a conflict between timber production and biodiversity conservation.

They represent unique opportunities for biodiversity researchers to explore the interactions between different plant species.

This is until the threshold of 43 % of forest cover is reached, beyond which the rate of biodiversity loss jumps from between two to up to eight major species gone per 10 % of disappeared forest.

Yet buried beneath the frozen boulder fields, tucked between grains of sand and buried ice, there is a surprising amount of biodiversity.

Conservation biologists have developed a number of methods for restoring the balance between ourselves and nature, for saving biodiversity.

Protecting them, a recent study says, could yield climate benefits, biodiversity conservation and protection for local economies for a nominal cost — between $ 4 and $ 10 per ton of CO2.

«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.

Now Ree and his colleague, Yaowu Xing, have evidence supporting the idea for connection between mountain building and biodiversity.

In this episode, we'll hear parts of three talks from the recent symposium, Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Health and the Environment, organized by the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

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.

In the same issue of PLoS Biology, Kai Chan of the University of British Columbia and his colleagues examined the overlap between preserving ecosystem services, such as providing water or pollinating crops, and preserving overall biodiversity in the central coast region of California.

A new approach contradicts previous research that reported an inverse correlation between high temperatures and biodiversity

«We are hopeful that by understanding the core relationships between land productivity and biodiversity, we can then refine management recommendations for land users with the goal of enhancing both economic and environmental outcomes.»

«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.

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.

Co-author Georgina M. Mace of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, UCL, said: «The discussion between conservation and synthetic biology is a necessary one.

Of the total new species of amphibians (1581) described globally between the years 2006 - 2015, the highest number were from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (approximately 182) followed by the Western Ghats - Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot (approximately 159), with 103 species described alone from the Western Ghats region.

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.

Thanks to the symbiotic relationship between corals and their solar - powered algae, «this miracle of construction creates the foundation for the greatest biodiversity in our oceans,» she said.

Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»

«Previously, the debate has been about whether biodiversity is regulated mainly by the interaction between species or the external environment,» explains researcher and leader of the study Samuli Lehtonen from the Biodiversity Unit of the Universibiodiversity is regulated mainly by the interaction between species or the external environment,» explains researcher and leader of the study Samuli Lehtonen from the Biodiversity Unit of the UniversiBiodiversity Unit of the University of Turku.

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.