Sentences with phrase «biodiversity decline»

Secondly, the cause of biodiversity decline may confound biodiversity - stability effects.

This a group of 22 ecologists conclude in a joint paper that was published in Science in 2016, titled «Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change» — that was based on a review of available predictions for biodiversity decline under anthropogenic climate change that were published in scientific literature.

Boucher and Lambshead argue that the conventional view that marine biodiversity declines with depth is wrong.

Predictive models that can forecast biodiversity decline under anthropogenic climate change used to be too simplistic, as these ignored crucial biological mechanisms such as demography, dispersal, evolution, and species interactions (for instance species competition and ecosystem dependence).

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the world.

Such wildlife corridors linking up larger but isolated protected areas are the most widely adopted strategy for halting biodiversity decline, with tens of millions of dollars spent creating and protecting them every year.

Biodiversity declines dramatically, the forest loses significance as a carbon source and the increased use of mineral fertiliser leads to additional leaching of nutrients such as nitrogen.

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

Heat waves, extreme precipitation events and flooding or extreme droughts, are also what actually cause climate damage — for instance lower agricultural productivity (as during the extremely hot 2003 summer in Western Europe) or biodiversity decline at ecosystem levels ranging from aquatic desert systems to entire rainforest biomes.

It's an underlying trend that can be deduced from population extinctions and intraspecific biodiversity decline we learned in part 14 of this series.

Land use and land cover (LULC) change causes biodiversity decline through loss, alteration, and fragmentation of habitats.

The reasons: Habitat loss, agricultural pollution, climate change, and general biodiversity decline.

An earlier publication, also in Science, revealed that biodiversity decline accelerates with climate warming — and that some continents (South America, Australia) seem to be more vulnerable than others.

The UN's third Global Biodiversity Outlook report warned of the dire consequences associated with alarming biodiversity declines and losses of habitats.

In Sumatra, Indonesia, an analysis of 5,450 images suggests a net biodiversity decline of 36 percent over the past eight years.

They found that biodiversity hotspots — those that have seen habitat loss in the past but have a lot of species only found in that area — are threatened, showing high levels of biodiversity decline.

Species interaction was almost never included in model - based forecasts for biodiversity decline.

In addition to climate change, animal agriculture is a major contributor to air and water pollution, water use, land degradation and deforestation, biodiversity decline, and ocean degradation.

The need for innovations in organic agriculture Worldwide, there is an urgent need for sustainable solutions to poverty, food insecurity, soil erosion, biodiversity decline and climate change.

In partnership with development agencies and donors, regional membership and like - minded institutions, IFOAM - Organics International promotes the adoption of organic practices as sustainable solutions to poverty, food insecurity, soil erosion, biodiversity decline and climate change.

A major trend is the increasing intensity of conventional agriculture and forestry, which leads to biodiversity decline.

Sustained harvesting of any biomass will require large inputs of nitrogen and other fertilizers; nitrogen fertilizer is a major cause of biodiversity decline and increasingly N2O emissions are recognized as a major contributor to climate change.

The study finds that climate change will likely force many vineyards to move either north or to higher altitudes, leading to habitat loss, biodiversity declines, and increased pressure for freshwater.

Governments of all ilk have failed to reverse environmental and biodiversity decline.

Scientific and societal requirements for ocean observing have evolved significantly over the past decade from being primarily focused on climate - related issues to include a much wider set of phenomena such as the degradation of coastal habitats, pollution, ocean acidification, over-exploitation of fisheries, biodiversity decline, de-oxygenation and more.

Even unaltered areas are impacted by pollution, biodiversity decline, and climate change.

As the Rio +20 Summit on Sustainable Development opens, the scientific journal, Nature, has evaluated the progress made on three treaties signed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992: climate change, biodiversity decline, and desertification.