Sentences with phrase «biodiversity hot»

In the tropics, boosting soil productivity increases the number of growing seasons per year, which could help alleviate the pressure to deforest biodiversity hot spots.

The rest of the world we will lose something as well — a unique culture, a carbon sink, a biodiversity hot spot, a shot at new treatments from medicinal plants that don't grow anywhere else in the world, for starters.

Over 1,500 marine species have been collected near the islands over the lat century, but the fastest sea warming in the Southern hemisphere may threaten this biodiversity hot - spot.

This webpage features carbon maps showing how carbon stocks in Asia, Africa and Latin America overlap with biodiversity hot spots.

He works collaboratively with the Bren School and UC Santa Barbara to model climate impacts on species in California, and with the National Botanical Institute in Cape Town, South Africa to model biotic change resulting from global warming in biodiversity hot spots in that region.

The paper explains that according to empirical evidence from the Sundaland biodiversity hot spot in Indonesia:

However its rich history has made the area a biodiversity hot spot which houses over 7,500 plant species, half of which are found no where else in the world.

Despite its small size, the island has the highest biodiversity density in Asia, making it one of the top biodiversity hot spots in the world.

In that region of our coast marine biodiversity hot spots such as Lover's Cove on Catalina Island, the lush kelp beds of South La Jolla, and the scuba diving destination of Naples Reef are protected while leaving over 80 % of the coast waters open for fishing.

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Ecologists classify the Hengduan Mountains as a biodiversity hot spot — an unusual designation for any part of the temperate world.

That puts South Georgia and the nearby Sandwich Islands ahead of well - known biodiversity hot spots like Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

The OceanCube is situated 2 miles offshore, with a central node sitting at a depth of 72 feet in a location known as a biodiversity hot spot.

She noted a cave in southern Portugal that would on its own fit Culver's definition of a cave biodiversity hot spot — it contains 22 cave - limited species, some occurring nowhere else in the world.

With the help of colleagues, he then came up with the first list of cave biodiversity hot spots — those with at least 20 organisms specialized for subterranean life, according to the criteria they settled on.

She and others have identified so many novel species that call Portugal's caves home that this tiny Mediterranean country would qualify as a biodiversity hot spot for cave organisms — if the field hadn't recently changed its criteria.

In addition to his wildlife observations, Bicknell has added 10,000 records covering 20 years of wildlife census data from other researchers into an algorithm that highlights biodiversity hot spots.

«Indonesia is also a pivotal biodiversity hot spot and drought intensification could bring significant challenges to conservation management.»

He is especially fascinated with the world's great remaining wilderness areas and biodiversity hot spots, especially those with rich indigenous cultures such as Mongolia, Bhutan, Gabon, and Madagascar.

We'd accomplished a lot over the years, protecting more than 200 million acres of biodiversity hot spots and building the strongest species - focused science enterprise in the world.

Not exact matches

The winery holds annual «Hot Topic» seminars for growers that focus on water conservation, reduction in inputs, biodiversity, soil biology, composting and efficient use of equipment.

Given the unexpected biodiversity she and her colleagues uncovered there — and at other inhospitable sites, from Yellowstone hot springs to Chile's Atacama Desert — Banfield created a new Tree of Life.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — Hot spots of plant biodiversity may also be magnets for invading weeds that thrive in prime growing conditions, according to a study described here yesterday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

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.

For example, «biodiversity [loss] on a really hot planet is accelerated.»

Some past Scientific American articles have championed focusing protection efforts on biodiversity «hot spots.»

High - risk hot spots for forest biodiversity, the researchers wrote, exist in southeast Asia, particularly Borneo, the central - western Amazon and the Congo basin in Africa.

«In order to preserve this diverse ecosystem — recognized as one of the 25 global biodiversity «hot spots» by the Nature Conservancy — the entire pathway of the creek needs to be restored.»

The California Floristic Province is one of the five biodiversity hotspots with Mediterranean climates, and it is characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.

If you love to bird watch and you are interested in observing the large biodiversity of birds in this area, a local guide can take you to the best hot spots for bird watching in the Santa Teresa / Mal Pais area.

It creates a vicious cycle which aggravates the situation even more and which will affect the availability of essential resources like drinking water, energy and agricultural production in the hottest areas, and will result in the extinction of a part of the planet's biodiversity.

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.

In total, 1,500 marine species have been collected from nearby to the islands, which make them one of the prime hot - spots for oceanic biodiversity.