Sentences with phrase «biodiversity at»

DW: The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but it's also putting biodiversity at risk.

Climate envelope models do not simulate dynamic population or migration processes, and results are typically constrained to the regional level, so that the implications for biodiversity at the global level are difficult to infer (Malcolm et al., 2002a).

While I agree that corals have a capacity to adapt to warming waters, it is my firm view that the rate of adaption will be too slow to prevent major loss of biodiversity at current levels and trends in -LSB-...]

Much of the focus of the tour is how research in Switzerland has developed an approach to green roofing that has biodiversity at the heart of their design.

Christian Wirth, Head of the Department for Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity at Leipzig University, explains why this is important: «Our summers will be drier and longer as a result of climate change.

Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change puts biodiversity at risk, especially in the tropical forests, themselves at risk from global warming that will have consequences that could in turn accelerate forest loss and the biodiversity of life sheltered by those forests, embracing both vegetation and the creatures that depend on the vegetation.

Stifling illegal trade and tightly controlling the rest would benefit human public health and biodiversity at the same time.

The head of this Alliance, Dr Goreau, was Senior Scientific Affairs Officer for global climate change and biodiversity at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, and the «only coral reef scientist with degrees in atmospheric physics and chemistry.»

The biodiversity at Lynden inspired Tasch to create a series of diminutive insect books that she paired with found objects from the site.

Luxuriant Nature and Biodiversity at Its Finest — Cabo Blanco National Park in Costa Rica The luxuriant Republic of Costa Rica is renowned for housing over 5 % of the biodiversity of our planet as well as for having the largest number of national parks and protected areas known as nature reserves.

Discover the Secret Gili's of Sekotong and experience marine biodiversity at its best (not to be confused with the well - known Gili Island's in the north mentioned above).

Just further still, you can experience the biodiversity at Chitwan National Park and have the chance to see black rhino, and the always elusive Bengal tiger.

«We continue to lose biodiversity at a rate never before seen in history - extinction rates may be up to 1,000 times higher than the historical background rate.»

Although the Cambrian explosion generated a large number of new phyla of Earth - type life, it actually crashed in a mass extinction not long after it began when oxygen levels fell and hydrogen sulphide levels rose again so that biodiversity at the family, genus, and species levels was decreasing around 515 million years ago (Gill et al, 2011; and Michael Marshall, New Scientist, January 5, 2011).

Preserving biodiversity at any level may not seem like a big deal — at first.

They used these rules to identify which areas promoted biodiversity at the least cost to oil palm companies.

A new conceptual evolutionary model first proposed in 2015 in bioRXiv and then published this year in the journal Biologia by Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, associate professor of ecology and biodiversity at Tomsk State University (Russia), reviewed the debated mechanism of speciation, suggesting that competition and a struggle for the existence are not the main drivers of evolution.

Representing biodiversity at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the obsolete glass menagerie has taken on new relevance under her watch: The models have become a benchmark for assessing the loss of sea life in the current Anthropocene epoch.

His research focuses on the origins of adaptations and biodiversity at both the molecular and organismal levels.

Johnson: I work at the Center for Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in charge of the metropolitan biodiversity program.

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

Andi Rusandi, Director of Marine Conservation and Biodiversity at MMAF, shared the importance of this study, «As we strive to develop whale shark ecotourism in Indonesia to benefit our local communities and these majestic animals themselves, it is important to highlight conservation.

Indeed, in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems, the big surprise is that the incursion of alien species can actually increase, rather than decrease, biodiversity at a local level.

«We can't save them all, but we intervene to help some adjust,» says Ary Hoffmann, who studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity at the University of Melbourne.

Of course, as he acknowledges, an increased local species - count might go hand in hand with lost biodiversity at the global level.

«He's the only person who ever collected it, and it was on this remarkable expedition when he was 17 years old,» said Warren, senior collections manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at UF.

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.

Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

Agriculture, especially in its most extreme modern form of industrialized monoculture, modifies landscapes and damages the ecosystem's goods and services, including biodiversity at all levels.

Organic farmers are both custodians and users of biodiversity at all levels.

Its Cocoa Research Centre in Selborne Estate in Pahang state, Malaysia, conducts research on cocoa - related inter-cropping, pest and disease management, and soil management to promote increased productivity and biodiversity at cocoa farms.

Not exact matches

Before joining The Times, she was a correspondent for Outside magazine covering the environment and biodiversity, and was a health editor at W magazine.

With luck and some hard preparatory work, nations will face these issues at Rio and sign conventions on climate change, forests, biodiversity and biotechnology.

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

The organic sector is protagonist of Milano EXPO 2015 during its last month thanks to the Organic Week organized at the Biodiversity Park and to the edition of the Charter of the International Organic Action Network.

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

The organic sector is protagonist of Milano EXPO 2015 during its last month thanks to the Organic Week organized at the Biodiversity Park and to the edition of the Charter of the International Organic Action...

This earlier situation (in the India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya context at least) basically meant just certifying «business as usual» tea production areas with very little or no value - addition from a biodiversity point of view.

Biodynamic farms must also set aside at least 10 % of their land for «biodiversity» — a mandate that makes biodynamic much less attractive to so - called factory farms.

I think that the high level of compliance with the shade and other biodiversity and environmental criteria as well as the positive economic impacts outlined in the report (which, despite my criticisms, I believe are both considerable and meaningful) demonstrate that RA certification is both achievable, profitable, and beneficial to the environment... at least for the currently certified farms.

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has developed standards that are targeted specifically at shade management and preserving biodiversity; their certification is called «Bird - Friendly» (this is a trademarked term and should always carry the Smithsonian seal).

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

These guidelines aim at providing principles for identifying biodiversity indicators that can be used to measure progress and assist technical advisors of dairy industry stakeholders in improving biodiversity management.

Independently verified at every stage, the voluntary program sees food manufacturers develop a plan that defines clear targets in key areas of sustainability, such as raw material sourcing, emissions, energy, waste, water, biodiversity and social sustainability.

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

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.

Purchasing products that carry the Australian Certified Organic logo saves you time at the store and guarantees the product to be free to range, non GM, pasture - fed, water efficient and biodiversity friendly as well as grown free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics.

Not to mention how wildly unsustainable the whole farming system in America is and biotech is is promoting this farming system / diet throughout the world along with food processors like Campbell's, claiming safety but not looking at all the other more important issues like environment, biodiversity, sustainability, animal welfare and the health of consumers.

Purchasing a CSA share at Drumlin Farm not only supports our farming program, but also Mass Audubon's overall mission to protect Massachusetts» biodiversity and ecosystems.

Purchasing a CSA share at Drumlin Farm not only supports our farming program, but also Mass Audubon's overall mission to protect the biodiversity and ecosystems of Massachusetts.