«The scientific community can make an important contribution to conservation in deserts by establishing baseline
information on biodiversity and developing new approaches to sustainable management of desert species and ecosystems.»
It also will be the first to provide
information on the biodiversity of Olympic National Park, one of the most geographically interesting regions of the U.S., said Zack.
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In 1999, a joint workshop in Vignola, Italy, organized by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and IFOAM together with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), was held to exchange ideas and
information on organic agriculture and
biodiversity.
The study is «a very welcome and very clever addition to the really limited
information we have
on dinosaur color and coloration patterns,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis
Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.
Satellites can help deliver such
information, and in 10 years» time, global
biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree
on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in
biodiversity.
The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of
information on changes in climate, land use,
biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.
Vegetation productivity or leaf cover can, for example, be measured across continents from space while providing
information about
biodiversity levels
on the ground.
To model the projected impact of climate change
on marine
biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with
information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.
These models provide new
information on the impacts of stump wood energy
on the carbon sink capacity of forests, the
biodiversity of forest nature and the soil structure of recovery areas.
Together, the data
on the animal sounds and photos, the DNA they leave behind, and satellite observations provide a wealth of
biodiversity information.
«Scientists have developed indicators for
biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and
information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts
on biodiversity.
Yet so far, the
information on the diet of adult dragonflies has practically been based
on individual visual observations of their prey, says Researcher and leader of the research group Kari Kaunisto from the
Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku.
Rare and extinct animals are preserved in jars of alcohol in natural history museum collections around the world, which provide a wealth of
information on the changing
biodiversity of the planet.
Also in the environmental field, Ubik researchers have participated in the design of a software tool that integrates all the
information on forest cover, drought and
biodiversity produced by different European systems of Earth observation.
Levis and her team used data from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network — a group of researchers who share
information on palms and trees in the Amazon — to estimate
biodiversity in the rainforest.
Last week, at the Society for Conservation Biology's annual meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, researchers and conservationists gathered to highlight how the HIV epidemic is threatening
biodiversity, and to share
information on how to alleviate an escalating human and environmental tragedy.
«I am almost sure that in ten years all the research
on biodiversity will be done with DNA, because it will be so easy to get this type of
information and the cost is not very high,» says Pierre Taberlet, a geneticist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and co-editor of the April issue of Molecular Ecology, which is devoted to the emerging field of studying environmental DNA.
For the most part,
information on these threats to
biodiversity is anecdotal.
«This
Biodiversity Library includes
information on bacteria that are model microorganisms for studying photosynthesis, carbon and nitrogen assimilation, evolution of plant plastids, and adaptability to environmental stresses.
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 2010).
The Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is the world's premiere source for information on biological specimen and observational data, providing on - line access to more than 300 million data records from around
Information Facility (GBIF) is the world's premiere source for
information on biological specimen and observational data, providing on - line access to more than 300 million data records from around
information on biological specimen and observational data, providing
on - line access to more than 300 million data records from around the world.
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