Sentences with phrase «of biodiversity»

The lower oxygen levels can result in fish deaths, a loss of biodiversity in the waters, and dead zones.

The level of biodiversity in an ecosystem is believed to indicate how healthy and stable the ecosystem is.

With intermediate levels of biodiversity loss, the effect on plant productivity could be as bad as climate change.

Our suppliers are committed to achieving high environmental performance through practices and policies including zero - waste, nutrient cycling, water efficiency, conservation of biodiversity, and energy and emissions efficiency.

In terms of biodiversity, organic farming takes into account gene adaptation, local ecosystems and species to improve disease resistance, soil, gene pools and local wildlife habitats.

At the same time, islands are hotspots of biodiversity and often support rare and unique species occurring nowhere else in the world.

The debate about the importance of biodiversity to ecosystem health has been simmering for decades.

The primary drivers of loss of biodiversity on land are well recognized to be habitat conversion / destruction, invasive species and now climate change.

The goals it sets are appropriate and necessary to ensure the survival and maintenance of biodiversity in our nation's fish, wildlife and plant populations.

They have called for protection of biodiversity for the useful drugs it may yield, and point to the decline in GDP that ozone depletion and climate change may cause.

Resource to support the study of biodiversity in a farming environment.

And the ability to measure the economic value of biodiversity for enhancing carbon storage could help in making decisions about land management, the paper published in the journal Science Advances concludes.

The fundamental hypothesis of evolutionary ecology is that processes taking place over a single growing season are ultimately responsible for patterns of biodiversity that emerge over millions of years.

Together, the data on the animal sounds and photos, the DNA they leave behind, and satellite observations provide a wealth of biodiversity information.

Now scientists hope to apply similar techniques to improving our understanding of biodiversity.

In 2002, the world's governments agreed to significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

For example, we could have satellites remotely monitoring biodiversity, and if we reach a certain amount of biodiversity in an area we could reward the local community with immediate and direct payment.

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

Also, the researchers plea for more effort to prevent land degradation and loss of biodiversity from happening.

Although conservation efforts are accelerating, their impact is unlikely to improve the global state of biodiversity by 2020.

Students will explore the impact of biodiversity on their everyday life and the effects of climate change and population growth on food production.

Also in other parts of the world, governments and development agencies are beginning to promote organic agriculture, especially in protected areas, because of its biodiversity benefits.

They recognize that part of the current failure of the protected areas to stop the decline of biodiversity is partly to do with the lack of science available.

The effect of biodiversity loss due to climate change on humans remains a big question mark.

The growing study of and awareness of biodiversity has encouraged this holistic approach in the green movement.

This opens up new pathways for the pursuit of biodiversity research.

Through this improved method, scientists can get a more detailed picture of the biodiversity in various aquatic habitats.

These species have also long been used to study the health of ecosystems, as indicators of biodiversity.

Something so much more than sun, desert, and long summers... breathtaking sunsets, mile long beaches, and a rich place full of biodiversity and history!

The area has one of the world's highest concentration of biodiversity.

«These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way,» the researchers wrote in the study.

Welcome to the jungle and about three percent of the biodiversity on this side of the planet.

We'd accomplished a lot over the years, protecting more than 200 million acres of biodiversity hot spots and building the strongest species - focused science enterprise in the world.

As a result of the dramatic rate at which biodiversity resources are being lost, world leaders decided to establish an international framework for the protection, preservation and promotion of biodiversity.

What kind of biodiversity should be protected in order to ensure the stability of ecosystem functioning?

To this end, they observe various facets of biodiversity, such as the size of populations, the characteristics of species or the functioning of ecosystems and analyse how they change.

He said that wetlands, which are integral part of the intricate system of biodiversity, can help reduce risks of flooding, recharge underground water and help restore soils degradation.

For more than a generation global warming has been the focus in the public arena to the detriment of pressing issues of biodiversity.

We humans are affecting nature to a greater and greater degree and this is contributing to the reduction of biodiversity globally.

These exist not only as an archive of biodiversity, but they're an archive of historical and cultural information as well.

But in order to also improve the quality of their biodiversity predictions these improved models now require more — and better data.