Sentences with phrase «depend on biodiversity»

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

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.

The first comprehensive scientific treatise on our reliance on other species, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, published in 2008, confirmed the importance of genetic variety, describing groups of threatened organisms crucial to agriculture and human medicine.

Not exact matches

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

In general, the degree of biodiversity in agro-ecosystems depends on four main characteristics of agro-ecosystems20:

Researchers say that while PAs can counter agricultural expansion — and many have increasingly called for PAs to expand across the planet amid dire evidence of rapid species decline — the limits on land that can be set aside for PAs means that biodiversity conservation success depends on protecting native vegetation on private lands.

Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.

These social changes could perhaps be a detriment to the long - term survival of marine protected areas, their biodiversity, and the people that depend on them for their livelihoods, the authors say.

Together with UK colleagues they found a high biodiversity within the bacteria, depending on the locations they lived, whereas the biodiversity of the snow algal communities was rather uniform.

If fish did leave refugia to occupy new regions, contemporary biodiversity should also depend on the recolonization ability of each species.

Losing the GBR and other reefs would be a massive blow to marine biodiversity and to the people that depend on healthy reefs for food, tourism, and protection from storms,» said co-author John Bruno, a marine ecologist from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The ability to authenticate premium and rare varieties would encourage growers to maintain cacao biodiversity rather than depend on the most abundant and easiest to grow trees.

Maintenance of biodiversity in a rapidly changing climate will depend on the efficacy of evolutionary rescue, whereby population declines due to abrupt environmental change are reversed by shifts in genetically driven adaptive traits.

Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in human history.

The size of the stumps and roots is the most significant factor for determining impact on forest carbon balance, while the impact on biodiversity depends on the amount of sturdy stump wood aboveground.

«Essentially, microbes won't eat each other's lunch if they depend on the other for a specific metabolite,» Northen said, describing this possible mechanism in support of soil biodiversity.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

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.»

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.

When winter comes and outdoor plants go dormant, students will investigate biodiversity in the world's tropical regions, simulate how animal species depend on rainforest plants for survival, and make clones from common houseplants.

Biodiversity and food security both depend on pollination of native plants and crops.

In other words, do human impacts on biodiversity increase the prevalence of diseases by eroding natural «checks and balances» on transmission or decrease prevalence when they remove the free - living biodiversity on which disease agents depend?

Flatten out after what degree of irrevocable damage to the planet and the millions of other species who depend on healthy biodiversity?

«In the end, the fate of biodiversity and ecosystems depends on political choices and individual choices... If people never experience nature and have negligible understanding of the services that nature provides, it is unlikely people will choose a sustainable future.»

We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well - being.

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

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.

As I near the end of my life, I am amazed at how much power, technology, wealth and consumption humanity has acquired, and that has transformed our lives while at the same time undermining the very life support systems on which our existence and well - being depend — air, water, soil and food, photosynthetic activity and biodiversity.

-- Biodiversity depends more strongly on the rate of change of climate than on the actual climatic state (i.e. whether «warm» or «cold»).

Depending on how it is done, using degraded lands for the expansion of bioenergy plantations could have either positive or negative effects on soil fertility, erosion, ecosystems, biodiversity, water flow and food availability.

Having a special year to draw attention to the importance of this issue no doubt has a role to play, but much like how the end of the 2010 Year of Biodiversity saw a slew of reports detailing how little progress is actually being made to preserve the ecosystems we all depend on, somehow I can't help but feel like come December 2011 we'll all be reading about how we're still not doing enough to preserve the forests upon which so much life depends.

All of this is in the context that greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation eclipse those of the global transport sector, not to mention uncalculable losses to biodiversity and threats to indigenous people who depend on forests for their livelihoods.