Sentences with phrase «on biodiversity»

The event had a significant impact on the biodiversity of local fish populations, which changed substantially when reefs did not recover.

The program will be a key for studies of environmental effects on biodiversity.

This indicates the complexity of understanding the ongoing effects of climate change on biodiversity.

As a result the international treaties that focus on biodiversity conservation and environmental protection were extended to cover cultural preservation.

As the method can be automated, it might be possible to obtain data on biodiversity in an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution in the future.

Although today the majority of positions and money are primarily found in other areas of biology, it has fortunately been recognized that research on biodiversity is urgently needed.

It might include for instance water stress — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, food security or civil peace — at either global or regional scales or both.

The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta - analysis.

The lighting is responsible for generating pollution astronomical and excess carbon dioxide emitted through the production of electricity, but the impact of light on biodiversity is much greater.

The study is one of several in the region investigating the impact of land use on biodiversity, and the recovery process in damaged rainforest.

The research has important implications for understanding the impact of present forest development on biodiversity and forest regeneration in the tropics.

This policy brief discusses the potential negative effects of climate change mitigation programmes on biodiversity.

As a result, there is currently a need to develop simple metrics of climate impacts on biodiversity.

The illegal trade of wildlife can have devastating effects on biodiversity.

The impacts of climate change on biodiversity and nature is increasingly prevalent.

If we create good adaptive climate strategies focused on biodiversity, we can change the shape of loss.

The transition from Thomas Jefferson's belief that mammoths still roamed the Earth to international conventions on biodiversity protection is told in a brisk style, packing in facts, dates and historical insights without ever becoming ponderous.

These are important findings of the Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

A comprehensive study of biodiversity indicators over the past decade [116] reveals that, despite some local success in increasing extent of protected areas, overall indicators of pressures on biodiversity including that due to climate change are continuing to increase and indicators of the state of biodiversity are continuing to decline.

Said lead author Dr. James Watson of WCS and University of Queensland, and current President of the Society for Conservation Biology: «Achieving CBD's goals are imperative for nature and humanity, as people depend on biodiversity for important and valuable services.

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

He has given testimony on climate impacts in the United States Senate and his work on biodiversity impacts has been published in journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, and Conservation Biology in Practice.

«We can't save them all, but we intervene to help some adjust,» says Ary Hoffmann, who studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity at the University of Melbourne.

A comprehensive study of biodiversity indicators over the past decade [116] reveals that, despite some local success in increasing extent of protected areas, overall indicators of pressures on biodiversity including that due to climate change are continuing to increase and indicators of the state of biodiversity are continuing to decline.

In October 1998, the government and representatives of the agricultural biotechnology industry agreed to conduct a series of closely - monitored Farm Scale Evaluations of the impact on biodiversity of herbicide - resistant genetically modified crops.

Organic farming practices also focus on biodiversity protection and land regeneration.

It is a major oversight that your article on biodiversity mentions micro-organisms only fleetingly (24 April, p 32).

In scientific journals, papers on biodiversity loss and conservation have increased at a steady pace, but publication of papers on climate change accelerated markedly around 2006 and overtook them.

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Scientists warn that geoengineering, once started, would have a severe impact on biodiversity if stopped.

«The Potential Impacts of Climate Geoengineering on Biodiversity and Potential International Regime Responses.»

Rudi was part of a select cohort of Indonesian civil society and government leaders working on biodiversity conservation issues that were invited to the US to meet with State Department officials, NGOs and their US counterparts to share strategies and learn from each other's efforts.

In hopes of countering the notion that environmental systems are literally priceless — that is to say, without an agreed upon monetary value — the 10th UN conference for the Convention on Biodiversity aims to quantify nature in economic terms.

Their consumption of oxygen could create hypoxic zones and have «a serious influence on biodiversity at those times as well,»

One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear «threshold» for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread.

LAST week's conference of the UN Convention on Biodiversity appeared to ban future efforts to geoengineer the planet to counter the effects of climate change.

By utilizing eBird for our bird observations we are providing key data on the biodiversity of avian populations in the Arenal Volcano National Park and Costa Rica as a whole.

An overzealous effort at protecting consumer from foodborne illness in California may be having unforeseen consequences on biodiversity, sustainability

«Decisions made today can ensure a brighter future for gorillas and chimpanzees, and the human communities that rely on biodiversity for their well - being.»

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.

Some past Scientific American articles have championed focusing protection efforts on biodiversity «hot spots.»

«Most Amazon bird species diverged from their most recent relative around 1.5 to 4 million years ago, so these are all young birds by comparison» says Weir, an expert on the biodiversity of New World birds.

In a research paper on biodiversity released today for Copenhagen Consensus 2012, Salman Hussain and Anil Markandya find that there will be a significant loss of biodiversity over the next 40 years.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

Last week, at the eighth United Nations conference on biodiversity in Curitiba, Brazil, the Brazilian government announced that it now protects nearly 800,000 km2 of Amazonian forest and has beaten a 2012 deadline for achieving that goal.