Sentences with phrase «how biodiversity»

Logan's macro photographs of the famed garden show how biodiversity can thrive in an urban oasis.

Scott Logan's macro photographs of the famed Gottlieb Native Garden show how biodiversity can thrive in an urban oasis.

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

The new work provides a better basis for understanding how biodiversity evolves.

Today, the need for a clear understanding of how biodiversity is created and maintained has intensified in the face of mass extinctions driven by human activity.

Studying how biodiversity evolved on deeper, mesophotic reefs can help scientists interpret the origins of their economically important shallow - reef counterparts.

The analyses were then applied to estimate how biodiversity in every square kilometre land has changed since before humans modified the habitat.

But while Clinton's decision is welcome because it will help reduce international tensions, it poses new questions about how the biodiversity treaty is to be interpreted.

At the time of the research no clear legal guidelines existed in France, but a new French biodiversity law is now to «implement the 2010 Nagoya Protocol, which complements the international Convention on Biological Diversity and aims to guarantee a greater control of the states rich in biodiversity, and their indigenous populations, over how their biodiversity resources are used and an equitable sharing of the benefits.»

«Given that habitat area and connectivity foster biodiversity, whereas isolation favors the dominance of few species, we hypothesized that topography itself could be playing a key role in regulating how biodiversity varies with elevation.»

Researchers carried out the first in - depth audit of its kind for a region in the UK to see how biodiversity might be impacted in Norfolk as the world warms.

Manos and Duke doctoral student José Meireles combed the scientific literature to reconstruct how the biodiversity of U.S. eastern forests arose.

Can we make predictions about how biodiversity in these river systems may change?

The terrestrial nature of these creatures is a great indicator of how biodiversity has changed in the Bahamas and what the ideal circumstances would be for these or similar species to return, said Florida Museum ornithology curator and study co-author David Steadman.

With these data you can look to see how biodiversity changed with time.»

The study focused on how the biodiversity and biological characteristics of fish communities changed in the marine reserve following a sustained period of sea warming in comparison to nearby sites open to fishing.

«Understanding how biodiversity responds to climate change in freshwater rock pools could provide critical information about potential patterns of biodiversity change both locally and globally,» Nadeau said.

«It's very beneficial for me to have someone in my group who is so skilled at doing species identification so we can sort out issues about how biodiversity changes with increased temperature and melting,» Wulff says.

Not exact matches

Question: How did the founding «kinds» pairs produce observable biodiversity in only a few thousand years?

Yet, how did these «kinds» produce observable biodiversity in only ~ 4000 yrs, well, they won't state it as such, but creationists require «hyper - evolution,» that is a rate of evolution far faster than evolutionists themselves believe is possible.

Regarding evolution the fact (Primewonk's definition) and evolution the scientific theory (the well - tested and validated explanation for extant and extinct biodiversity stemming from physical evidence from every relevant scientific discipline), they stand on their own evidence regardless of how exactly the first replicators appeared.

How did all these necessary «systems» come about so as to make not just human life possible, but all the biodiversity of life that is in every «nook and cranny» of the earth?

The focus is on research on coffee growing (e.g., how shade impacts pests, yield, and biodiversity), as well as topics such as the economics of various certifications.

They will discover the biodiversity of Honduras and how people in their own neighborhoods enjoy eating their highly nutritious bananas.

In view of the variability of agroforestry systems around the world, the third draft of the new SAN standard seeks to ensure that all farms contribute meaningfully to biodiversity conservation, while providing some flexibility in how this is done.

Some say they use independent auditors, or visit the farms themselves.I don't know how many, if any, of these evaluators have experience in actually assessing biodiversity, from a scientific viewpoint.

The program, which emphasizes environmentally sound growing methods, such as biodiversity, soil revitalization and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), shows growers how to cultivate grapes with more character, flavors and aromas with the goal of making better, genuinely distinctive wines.

With intensive agriculture linked to deforestation and desertification, as well a general loss of genetic biodiversity, how can declines in ecosystem be reversed and biodiversity encouraged?

Not to mention how wildly unsustainable the whole farming system in America is and biotech is is promoting this farming system / diet throughout the world along with food processors like Campbell's, claiming safety but not looking at all the other more important issues like environment, biodiversity, sustainability, animal welfare and the health of consumers.

Another paper by the Union for Ethical BioTrade will show how awareness of biodiversity is rising across the globe.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said the 2017 report, in suggesting how climate change may strongly impact the futures of many birds that breed in the Bay State, «represents another example of the conservation organization's leadership and commitment to species protection and biodiversity.

The group felt that there will need to be much greater clarity on how the wider land reform proposals fit in with the Scottish Government's own objectives in terms of deer and game management and its aims to deliver landscape scale biodiversity recovery across Scotland.

A particular emphasis will be on how BASC's Green Shoots programme can be further developed so that its members will be able to contribute to monitoring and conserving habitats and species as part of the Government's Biodiversity 2020 programme.

There, he studied pollinator interactions and declines throughout Europe and how these declines affect factors such as biodiversity and crop yields.

The team also looked ahead to examine how potential mammal extinctions could affect the world's biodiversity.

The 1300 - page report, entitled Securing India's Future — Final Technical Report of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, was commissioned in 2000 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to look at how the country should manage its rich bBiodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, was commissioned in 2000 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to look at how the country should manage its rich biodiversitybiodiversity.

«If we can get a better understanding of the climate in the past, of the consequences of climate change and of how it shaped communities, then we might be able to interpret the future of biodiversity under the current climate change scenario,» says Guénard.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

«Understanding how native species resist exotic species could help us prevent further invasions that damage crops, biodiversity and cost # Billions each year.

The researchers set out to discover how this type of traditional farming impacts biodiversity and bee populations.

To understand how these aspects of biodiversity evolve, we must understand that the challenge is one of seducing a mind that has the capacity to evolve nearly infinite preferences.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a historical view of how climate change and the resulting habitat loss can affect Earth's biodiversity.

How does the pattern of fungal biodiversity vary across regions, and across the planet?

Although the pools are abundant, little is known about their biodiversity — and how that mix may fare under the effects of climate change.

The CIFOR study does show examples of how forest conservation and livelihoods can be integrated, but Adams cautions that it suggests «no overarching strategy» for conserving biodiversity while reducing poverty.

In a project focusing on how climate changes in the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gap.

But as the idea of national parks and other protected areas for biodiversity spread to other countries, particularly in the developing world, it became clear how arbitrary the concept was.

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.

These assessments, based on reviews of the scientific literature, will answer questions about how much biodiversity is declining and what the implications of extinctions and ecosystem change might be for humanity.

That report highlighted the UN Convention on Biodiversity as a potential tool with which to regulate gene drives, including how, when and even whether they are deployed.