Sentences with phrase «of greater biodiversity»

The Reserve contains the northernmost cloud forests in the world and is considered as one of the greatest biodiversity sites of North America.

If you're looking for hallucinatory life - forms, as well as some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, head for the nearest beach.

Because of its great biodiversity the country enjoys a natural advantage in this sort of activity with the increasing demand for vacation packages, retreats, and rentals.

Congaree National Park is the most astonishing place of great biodiversity.

The Guanacaste Mountain Range is covered with dense forests of great biodiversity which cover various life zones.

They are symbolic of the great biodiversity that inhabits the oceans.

But this is also an area of great biodiversity.

Not exact matches

The green revolution, the greatest success of technology in increasing yields, has also made agriculture far more dependent on oil and reduced the biodiversity that provides security against devastating pests.

Salvanatura is the main conservation organization in El Salvador, and it has done a great deal of work specifically with coffee farms, both research on biodiversity, preparing and critiquing Rainforest Alliance certification guidelines, and aiding in certification efforts.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

The use of herbicide resistant plants can result in greater use of herbicides, increasing the negative effects of intensive farming on natural biodiversity.

(22 July 2015) Soil is a great reservoir of biodiversity containing one - third of all living organisms.

Leonor Espinosa is known for taking great pride in the cuisine of her country, as well as nurturing and promoting the value of its biodiversity.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

In The chemical senses and the development of flavor preferences in humans published in Hale and Hartmann's Textbook of Human Lactation, Dr. Mennella cites the research of Frederick D. Provenza which shows that «learned food preferences are transmitted from [mammalian] mothers to their offspring, resulting in greater biodiversity.»

In the seven years that Picture This: Your Great Outdoors has been engaging hundreds of photographers of all ages and abilities, the contest has catalogued a remarkable pictorial record of Massachusetts» natural beauty, its rich biodiversity of plants and animals, and the people who cherish them.

Help Mass Audubon protect the biodiversity of the Great Marsh by volunteering to help with pepperweed removal at sites from Salisbury to Gloucester.

A wondrous world of nature hides in plain sight at the Chicago Academy of Sciences collections facility - Chicago Reader - March 21, 2017 The natural history haven in North Center contains nearly 300,000 specimens that document the biodiversity of the midwest, Illinois, and greater North America.

The colors, sights and scents of people engaged by the thousand in food politics, biodiversity, human rights, sustainable farming, responsible consuming and really great eating are both overwhelming and exhilarating.

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.

Needed improvements, it says, include more attention to the economic and human rights of traditional cultures and greater grassroots participation in government decisions that affect biodiversity.

Our research will contribute to the greater understanding of biodiversity, breadth, and evolution in the deep sea.»

The pathogen is therefore classified worldwide as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity.

«I discovered that some of the least fertile parts of our planet are home to its greatest biodiversity,» he says.

The outbreak is «a great concern,» Aplin says, because of the region's great frog biodiversity.

The closer a reef is to one of these regions that are stable over time, the greater its biodiversity today.

«The evolutionary consequences of climate change are one of our greatest areas of uncertainty because empirical data addressing this issue are extraordinarily rare; this study is a tremendous step forward in our understanding of how climate change can influence evolutionary process and ultimately species biodiversity,» said Ryan Kovach, a University of Montana study co-author.

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

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

JUDGING from the number of letters and phone calls I get from readers of Thistle Diary, there is great interest in the challenges of biodiversity.

Even greater pressure will be placed on the continent's biodiversity as the current African population of 1.25 billion people is set to double to 2.5 billion by 2050.

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.

In the most thorough study of its kind, scientists have now analyzed global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions and developed predictive models to help identify places where conservation interventions will provide the greatest benefits to threatened island biodiversity.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in human history.

The EBP would focus on the natural world, providing a better understanding of biodiversity by first sequencing in great detail the DNA of a member of each eukaryotic family (about 9000 in all) and eventually generating coarser genomes for the other eukaryotes.

The study, conducted through the DOE JGI's Community Science Program, also demonstrates the importance of evaluating biodiversity within a genus to understand how fungi can be greater utilized to solve a variety of problems.

The rapid conversion of natural lands to cement - dominated urban centers is causing great losses in biodiversity.

The greatest challenges the world faces: food security, climate change, loss of biodiversity, the aging population and disease can all ultimately be addressed through biology based research,» Mark Downs, head of the Society of Biology said in a statement.

Thanks to the symbiotic relationship between corals and their solar - powered algae, «this miracle of construction creates the foundation for the greatest biodiversity in our oceans,» she said.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

When the small farmers largely embrace monoculture as an agricultural system, they put a great deal of strain on the environment and on biodiversity.

It is also associated with greater biodiversity of plants, animals, insects and microbes as well as genetic diversity.

First, the researchers show how growing native perennial species on marginal lands - land not used for food production because of low fertility or other reasons — avoids competition with food security, and provides the greatest potential for climate mitigation and biodiversity benefits.

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.»

Most studies find an association between greater genitourinary biodiversity and reduced incidence and lessened severity of UUI as well as improved treatment response.

«Flowering meadows benefit humankind: Greater biodiversity in grasslands leads to higher levels of ecosystem services.»

However, our study also shows that the effect of soil biodiversity on ecosystem functions may be greater in areas with higher precipitation.

Bathyal regions «have much greater biodiversity than coral reefs, which are often said to be the rainforests of the ocean», says Lambshead.