Sentences with phrase «global plant biodiversity»
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Five University of Alberta researchers, including students, participated in a leading global initiative to determine whether there are widespread and consistent patterns in plant biodiversity.
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«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Bees and other insects pollinate many of the world's important food crops and wild plants, raising serious concerns about the impacts of reported global pollinator declines for food security and biodiversity.
Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.
Global warming affects more than just plant biodiversity - it even alters the way plants grow.
Biodiversity data, being the digitised data of individual plant occurrences identified to species level, was sourced from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, http://www.gbif.org).
Quantitative measurements of plant characterisation are essential to biodiversity, sustainability and conservation policy formation of local, national and global areas.
We constructed algorithms for plant distribution on a global scale, using field - based data of individual plant occurrences for consequent numbers from the publicly stored multiple - interface portal of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org, accessed December global scale, using field - based data of individual plant occurrences for consequent numbers from the publicly stored multiple - interface portal of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org, accessed December Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org, accessed December 2010).
This is an important thing to do in order to stop or slow global warming, to preserve biodiversity and numerous unique species of plants and...
The flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot, includes 2387 endemic plant taxa.
one last thing, already thousands of animal and plant species are extinct due to global warming, the earths biodiversity will never be the same.
Runoff from chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.
DW: The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but it's also putting biodiversity at risk.