Sentences with phrase «for more biodiversity»

According to a report from the World Wildlife Fund entitled «Sugar and the Environment,» sugar may be responsible for more biodiversity loss than any other crop.

Interestingly, in addition to creating niches for more biodiversity above ground, the new guidelines also suggest that solar farms may also provide an incentive to promote more soil - based carbon sequestration too:

Not exact matches

For example, 81 % of the coffee in Nicaragua and El Salvador grew under a shade canopy in 1996, and although recent surveys document declines in shade tree diversity since then, these declines mostly occurred on larger farms; in contrast, many smallholder cooperatives preserve high levels of biodiversity, including more than 100 species of shade trees on fewer than 30 farms (Méndez et al. 2010a).

Although I have found a lot of background information regarding shade - grown coffee, as well as more specific information mainly to do with biodiversity indices and legislation and the requirements of the shade providing canopy I have been having a lot of trouble finding practical resources for farmers.

Higher organic matter, better nutrition, and rotational grazing practices allow for healthier plants and more vegetative biodiversity.

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.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

Respected for its longtime successes in the areas of biodiversity and land protection, Mass Audubon has more recently made a commitment to promoting green infrastructure and strategies to address climate change.

He noted that partnerships have been crucial to Bay State land protection successes, resulting in greater biodiversity, healthier watersheds, and more opportunities for citizens to connect with nature.

Quantifying what hunters and their organisations do for biodiversity is essential to co-ordinate more effective actions towards nature conservation throughout Europe.»

«We look forward to working on a cross-party basis to protect biodiversity, create more woodland and secure access for future generations to enjoy.»

On this basis on 1st August, 2016, Forest Watch Ghana (a civil society coalition of 35 - member organisations and several other NGOs in the natural resource sector) petitioned the then President, John Mahama, to intervene in the issuance of prospecting license to Exton Cubic due to environmental concerns; more than 60 % of this forest reserve is a Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), which means that the area is protected for its unique ecology and diversity of species of flora and fauna.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are today calling for more ambitious climate change targets, stronger commitments to halt the loss of biodiversity in Wales and more concerted efforts for Wales to become a Zero Waste Nation.

This more subtle effect is still equally devastating for the conservation of biodiversity in Malaysia.»

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

Recent advances in bacterial identification and sequencing have allowed for more and more environments, including our skin, mouths and guts, to give up the secrets of their microbial biodiversity.

Anne Larigauderie, executive director of Paris - based Diversitas, a facilitator for biodiversity science, says that the IPBES could turn the «fragmented» field of biodiversity research into a more coordinated «common enterprise» that will lead to better models of future biodiversity changes.

The extensively peer - reviewed IPBES assessment reports focus on providing answers to key questions for each of the four regions, including: why is biodiversity important, where are we making progress, what are the main threats and opportunities for biodiversity and how can we adjust our policies and institutions for a more sustainable future?

Shaahina Ali from Biodiversity Education and Awareness also argues for a more sustainable approach.

«China is becoming more and more fascinating for those who study cave biodiversity, because it holds some of the most morphologically adapted cavernicolous animals in the world.

«A mix of meadows, young forest, old forest and shrub lands, for example, might provide more benefits than a landscape of continuous young forest, even if that young forest itself has high biodiversity,» Zavaleta said.

A change In reality, INBio focuses less on the inventory of the region's biodiversity and more on finding uses and applications for it.

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.»

An international community of conservationists, scientists and sociologists needs to join the concerned citizens and researchers of Nicaragua in demanding two things: first, independent assessments of the repercussions of this mega-project; and second, that the Nicaraguan government halt the project should the assessments confirm fears that this canal will yield more losses than gains for the region's natural resources, indigenous communities and biodiversity.

While the Douglas fir is the more productive replacement species for the Norway spruce, silver firs have a greater positive effect on biodiversity.

Perhaps more importantly, they also pollinate many wild - flower species, making them crucial for maintaining biodiversity.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

Wynne was the chief author of a joint report, Biodiversity Challenge, published by environmental groups at the end of last year, which proposed more than 500 targets for the conservation of species and habitats.

Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree removal.

Other high biodiversity areas, such as Amazonia, which have seen no land use change have higher levels of biodiversity and more scope for proactive conservation.

«The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation,» Gustavsson said.

Maintaining high levels of biodiversity throughout the food chain is therefore more economical and wiser in the long term than destroying it for short term gains.

More ambitious is his call for a new law, and a new government agency, to protect biodiversity.

«Biodiversity conservation has mostly focused on species, but some species may offer much more critical or unique functions or evolutionary heritage than others — something current conservation planning does not readily address,» said Walter Jetz, a Yale associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and director of the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.

«We show that a direct consideration of these other biodiversity facets identifies different regions as high - priority for conservation than a focus on species does, and more effectively safeguards functions or evolutionary heritage,» Jetz said.

When the biodiversity of an ecosystem is reduced by invasive species, competition for food plays a more important role than has previously been supposed.

Experts share their priorities for what must be done to make protected areas more effective at conserving global biodiversity

The idea for the summit dates back more than a decade, when Knowlton was a professor at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, California, teaching marine biodiversity.

William Sutherland, a population biologist at the University of East Anglia, has shown that the places on Earth with the most biodiversity are the most linguistically diverse as well and that languages are even more at risk for extinction than are birds or mammals.

What's more, even if plant growth does rise overall, the direct and indirect effects of higher CO2 levels will be disastrous for biodiversity.

In addition to the rich and unique biodiversity inhabiting these environments, deep coral reefs may serve as a refuge for certain species that are more heavily impacted on shallow coral reefs.

GREEN GRASS Growing switchgrass (left) for biofuels produces more biodiversity and ecological benefits than growing maize (right) does.

Sugar maple is also an ecologically vital foundation of the region's northern hardwood forests, where it fosters more fertile soils, provides nutritious browse for wildlife, and supports a higher biodiversity of plants and soil organisms.

Prompted by research published this week showing that the bloodsuckers can store DNA from their meals for several months, the saola search is at the vanguard of an approach to gauging biodiversity that could prove much more efficient than conventional methods.

The main need, he adds, is for more habitat and biodiversity data to complement and expand on the IUCN Red List, rather than relying on the Red List as a singular authority on extinction risk.

«It's one of the great research institutions in comparative zoology, biodiversity and natural history, and it has been one of the leading centers of research for more than 100 years,» says James Hanken, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Studies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme event studies is lacking.

More generally, Wetzel and his team point out, if insects get diminishing returns from an increase in a given plant trait — for example, if they get ever-less out of each additional unit of protein — then biodiversity poses an evolutionary challenge.

While simpler than a real - world environment, the resultant model provides a much more realistic basis for studying biodiversity formation than has been possible before.

For instance biodiversity research, the study of the variety of life on Earth, is becoming more and more dependent on high - quality tissue and environmental samples for DNA sequenciFor instance biodiversity research, the study of the variety of life on Earth, is becoming more and more dependent on high - quality tissue and environmental samples for DNA sequencifor DNA sequencing.