Sentences with phrase «for plant diversity»

Being opposite Bluff Knoll Road and Stirling Range National Park — which is world renowned for plant diversity — this is a mecca for artists, writers, photographers and hikers.

(Here's an example of her biology project on a public campaign to promote seed saving for plant diversity.)

Not exact matches

The country also is estimated to have the highest sheer number and diversity of plants and animals for its size, meaning it's the most dense country for biodiversity in the world.

The country is renowned for its diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, like three - toed sloths, endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys and hundreds of different bird species.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

Selection for this suite of traits leaves a mark on the plant's genome by the reduction of genetic diversity in the areas that code for these traits.

-LCB- Project -RCB- COBRA: COBRA: Coordinating Organic Plant Breeding Activities for Diversity.

Thanks so much for all the plant based, whole food recipes... The diversity of the cultures represented is amazing... Kerp up the great work in helping us reshape our lives and still keeping it delicious...

Given this diversity of cruciferous plant parts, it's also important to remember that different parts may require different cooking times for optimal nutrient retention.

Under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.

Beneficial effects on species density and diversity are also verified for water macro-invertebrates (Odonata, Hemiptera and Gasteropoda) and plants - especially holly - leaf naiad (Najas minor), spiny naiad (Najas marina), alkali (Scirpus maririmus) and some macro-alga.

The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

With the support of a recently awarded grant, Moose Hill is working to increase upland habitat diversity and improve early successional habitat for plants and wildlife.

In early January, Moose Hill was awarded a Wildlife Habitat Management Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game (Mass Wildlife) to increase upland habitat diversity and improve early successional habitat for plants and wildlife.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

Diversity hiring goals at the SolarCity plant under construction in South Buffalo have not resulted in a lot of jobs for African Americans, even though they account for nearly 40 percent of the city's population.

«Many food security problems revolve around maintaining pollinator diversity to provide services to crops or wild plants and designing landscapes to provide living conditions for pollinators,» Biesmeijer says.

Agencies that maintain databases of animal and plant diversity will get a one - time, $ 40 million grant for upgrading laboratories.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

In today's issue of Science, a researcher makes a strong case that this diversity stems from the beetles» fondness for a leafy diet and the appearance of flowering plants some 100 million years ago.

Although North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, the inventory uncovered nearly 4,600 CWR in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry.

By the beginning of the period, dinosaurs had been around for more than 85 million years, but some researchers have suggested that the spread of flowers sparked a surge in dinosaur diversity, with many new species evolving to feast on the green bounty — or to devour the plant - eaters.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

The evolutionary diversity of plants is considered to be an important foundation for the stability of ecosystems.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

Sixty - two scientists from 19 countries spanning six continents studied the relationships between plant biomass production and species diversity, culminating in a paper appearing in Science, the world's leading journal for cutting - edge scientific research.

The paring down of wheat's genetic diversity over generations is not easy to rebuild, but Mark Sorrells, another professor of plant breeding at Cornell, is optimistic: «It is possible to make [these] kind of broad generalizations... but it is easy to cite examples in the other direction,» he said, mentioning the durum wheat used for pasta.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

Urban park inventory and diversity assessments are essential to understand tree population structures and the plant diversity status of the park and provide information for biodiversity recovery planning.

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.»

«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.

«Once the diversity of plants decreases, as this paper indicates is true for the relatives of ginkgo, animal life also declines.»

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvemeFor example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvemefor crop improvement.

But that would hardly be good for the planet, Kareiva notes, because natural forests deliver other benefits, such as fostering a diversity of animals, fungi, insects, microbes and plants.

As tropical forests become increasingly broken up by roads, farm fields, pastures and other developments, corridors of trees provide vital pathways for pollinators and contribute to a rich diversity of plant species, scientists have confirmed.

«Plant products in our diet have immense molecular diversity and consequently also have a huge potential for affecting our health and well being.

The results are surprising, for even in the presence of many different herbivorous animals, plants produced the same amount of biomass as in simulations with a low diversity of herbivore species.

All three authors worry about the message laid plain by the study: «What this really suggests is that to save ecological interactions, we may need to conserve much larger areas than for just maintaining e.g. plant diversity.

The Commission wants environment ministers to give it money to make an inventory of collections of plant varieties and animal breeds in the Community, and for projects to catalogue and conserve diversity in each member state.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

John Dickie, head of botanical information at the Millennium Seed Bank, added: «For a number of years we have been keen to know just how much phylogenetic diversity, the total outcome of millions of years of seed plant evolution, we have in the vault.

Oxford researchers have constructed a «hit list» of the plant species most needed to boost the overall diversity of the Millennium Seed Bank, which is storing seeds in its vaults for future generations.

«Seeding plant diversity for future generations.»

«I strongly believe there's a way to show the birds that the PV panels are solid surfaces, not water,» said Ileene Anderson, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is preparing to sue over Yuma clapper rail mortality at solar power plants.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

The ubiquity of these markers and the fact that these polymorphisms show variation at such a fine scale (i.e., at the individual level) makes them ideal markers for many applications, such as population - level genetic diversity studies and genetic mapping in plants.

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.