Sentences with phrase «of plant diversity»

And thanks to the Center for Food Safety, a new global peer - to - peer seed saving network will enable more people to contribute to the preservation of plant diversity, and to protect «our public food system from corporate consolidation.»

The Global Seed Vault, which has been called «the Noah's Ark of plant diversity,» has flooded after the permafrost around it thawed.

Páramos, a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature.

Their study is the first to show that soil biota play an important role in the maintenance of plant diversity in species - rich ecosystems.

«We wanted to take a sample of plants that we could defend as being representative of plant diversity globally,» says Lughadha.

On the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a year after a climate event, regardless of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescales.

«Seeds are the root of plant diversity,» Janovec says.

According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, 75 percent of plant diversity has been lost over the last century.

When training as an engineer, I was applying fractal mathematics to model patterns of plant diversity.

Not exact matches

The country also is estimated to have the highest sheer number and diversity of plants and animals for its size, meaning it's the most dense country for biodiversity in the world.

The country is renowned for its diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, like three - toed sloths, endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys and hundreds of different bird species.

The success of rehabilitation is monitored annually by assessing plant density and species diversity.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

As they rowed along that afternoon, Thoreau observed with delight the rich diversity of fishes and plants that inhabited the river and its banks, and the occasional solitary fisherman who lingered by its shores.

The same argument explained the vast diversity of kinds of animals and plants.

Their activism reflects the growing diversity among their denomination; a report released last month showed a majority of Southern Baptist church plants are predominantly non-Anglo, and LifeWay Christian Resources has become the world's largest commercial publisher of Spanish Bibles.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

When you get the diversity of all the different natural plants in these special combinations, we bring out the best of the flavors in the meat.»

Phenotypic diversity, or the diversity of the visible plant traits does not fully reflect the genetic diversity that underlies it.

Generally speaking, the wild relatives of crops harbor high levels of genetic diversity, which is very advantageous in the wild, where the plants are subject to ever - changing growing conditions.

Selection for this suite of traits leaves a mark on the plant's genome by the reduction of genetic diversity in the areas that code for these traits.

Thanks so much for all the plant based, whole food recipes... The diversity of the cultures represented is amazing... Kerp up the great work in helping us reshape our lives and still keeping it delicious...

Given this diversity of cruciferous plant parts, it's also important to remember that different parts may require different cooking times for optimal nutrient retention.

The fact that we commonly include so many different parts of cruciferous plants in our diet may help us broaden the diversity of phytonutrients that we get from this food group.

Although I eat a lot of plants, the reality is that there are a lot of days that I don't get enough of them or eat a large diversity and definitely not enough diversity.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens concluded that global warming threatens the genetic diversity of Arabica plants found in Ethiopia and surrounding lands.

Under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

Species diversity: the different types of plants, animals and other life forms within a region or community;

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens concluded that global warming threatens the genetic diversity of coffee plants found in Ethiopia and surrounding countries.

Danger in the Reeds is a series of documentary videos developed to educate the public about an aggressive invading plant, Phragmites australis, which is pushing out the natural diversity with dense, monoculture stands of tall reeds with deeply penetrating roots.

With the support of a recently awarded grant, Moose Hill is working to increase upland habitat diversity and improve early successional habitat for plants and wildlife.

Some 80 species of butterflies, 164 bird species, 700 plus plant species, and a diversity of wildlife habitats.

In early January, Moose Hill was awarded a Wildlife Habitat Management Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game (Mass Wildlife) to increase upland habitat diversity and improve early successional habitat for plants and wildlife.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

Planting the first batch of seedlings this year will also increase the genetic diversity in the seeds that the Parks Department will harvest and grow.

Diversity hiring goals at the SolarCity plant under construction in South Buffalo have not resulted in a lot of jobs for African Americans, even though they account for nearly 40 percent of the city's population.

Given the diversity of potential xenobiotics and stressors in the life history of higher plants, it is reasonable to suppose that having diverse GST functions is adaptive.

Agencies that maintain databases of animal and plant diversity will get a one - time, $ 40 million grant for upgrading laboratories.

One important part of the puzzle involves unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to identify those species and populations best able to cope with changing conditions.

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

Our study shows that plant diversity differs between intact areas and areas in which the monkeys have disappeared as a result of poaching.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

Many native plants can not thrive under these unusual circumstances, which is why the species diversity of the forest understory is decreasing.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

This photo of a cup plant flower teaming with insects led entomologists to investigate the pollinator wasp diversity support potential of the plant and the role of aphids and parasitic wasps.

Her current work examines which bee species are most vulnerable to human disturbance, and explores in more detail whether both rare native bees and efficient pollination services can be restored by increasing the diversity of flowering plants.