Sentences with phrase «know about the biodiversity»

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

«This tells just how little we still know about the biodiversity of organisms through Earth's history.

The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really need to know about biodiversity,» says avian systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.»

The specimens contained in the world's natural history museums are the basis for most of what scientists know about biodiversity.

Not exact matches

Everything we know about population genetics indicates that founding kind pairs would not be capable of generating the necessary genetic diversity to invariably survive, let alone yield present day observable biodiversity.

We don't know about you but we'd rather support farmers who let their animals free range, encourage biodiversity, don't use harsh chemicals and GM and take pride in providing us with food the way it's meant to be — without traces of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics.

While little to nothing is known about when the vast majority of butterfly and moth species fly, eat and mate, the study provides a basic and much - needed framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor and curator at the museum's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida.

Biological invasions pose major threats to biodiversity, but little is known about how evolution might alter their impacts over time.

«With the Earth in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet's biodiversity, even for charismatic groups such as tarantulas.»

«The gap between what we know and don't know about Earth's biodiversity is still tremendous, but technology is playing a major role in closing it and helping us conserve biodiversity more intelligently and efficiently,» said coauthor Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.

She is talking about Brazil's environmental regulators, including the national park agency, known as the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBIO), and the Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm, known as the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).

And they really don't know a lot about climate change; or they don't know a lot about evolution, or they don't know a lot about biodiversity.

By now, biodiversity is a well known term even in the broader public, as it is used in many media reports about species extinction, natural resources or climate change.

PADI's Divemaster course is offered in the centre of the sensational Coral Triangle, a place known for its masses of marine biodiversity, so this in itself is something to be excited about.

The author connects unrelated issues about trees, conflates what we know about trees from different latitudes, and fails to convey the main point: tropical trees keep climate cool locally, help keep rainfall rates high, and have innumerable non-climate benefits including maintaining habitat and supporting biodiversity.

The letter begins «As you know, an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human - induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity.»

I know there have been surveys that aim to show the level of consensus on the existence of man - made climate change, but were climate scientists polled about «potentially serious adverse effects... on human health, agriculture and biodiversity»?

E.O. Wilson, the eminent biologist credited with bringing the term biodiversity into the public lexicon, spoke on the loss of species and how much we just don't know about the spectrum of life on the planet.

«With the Earth in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet's biodiversity, even for charismatic groups such as tarantulas.»

Having a special year to draw attention to the importance of this issue no doubt has a role to play, but much like how the end of the 2010 Year of Biodiversity saw a slew of reports detailing how little progress is actually being made to preserve the ecosystems we all depend on, somehow I can't help but feel like come December 2011 we'll all be reading about how we're still not doing enough to preserve the forests upon which so much life depends.