"Plant biodiversity" refers to the variety of different plant species, or types of plants, that exist within a certain area or ecosystem. It emphasizes the importance of having a wide range of plants, as it helps maintain a healthy and balanced environment, supports various animal species, and provides us with essential resources such as food, medicine, and oxygen.
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This book presents a series of essays on the application
of plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment to help prevent species extinction, ecosystem collapse, and solve problems in biodiversity conservation.
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on Plant Biodiversity: Ramsar Wetland Convention Meeting in Korea: Protecting Rice Paddies NY Chef Urges Congress to «Stop the Blandness!»
The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve
global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.
The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to
preserve plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.
Our findings have important implications for society and the economy as pollinating insects are vital to support agriculture and
wild plant biodiversity.»
«What if we could bypass traditional sampling issues and really speed up the rate at which we discover and
document plant biodiversity and reconstruct the plant tree of life?»
Our findings demonstrate that
increasing plant biodiversity improves the physical properties of soil and have the potential to help us develop new, greener solutions for these issues.»
The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in
plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.
Bioversity International in Italy works to
safeguard plant biodiversity and, between other missions, maintains the world's largest banana germplasm collection.
The above image shows the taxonomic representation of the IUCN Red List [that seems to place relative weight on «higher» animal biodiversity, considering the extent
of plant biodiversity on Earth].
The wholesale destruction of rainforests across parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island to make way for cash - crop plantations has not just devastated animal and
plant biodiversity in the region, but may...
Nevertheless, the film compellingly shows the unsettling possibilities of genetic contamination of conventional or local varieties of seeds by their genetically - engineered cousins, pointing to a horrific future where
global plant biodiversity is nil and farmers are not able to grow anything but genetically contaminated food.
Learn about soil health, water quality, wildlife management,
plant biodiversity, and more.
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — Hot spots of
plant biodiversity may also be magnets for invading weeds that thrive in prime growing conditions, according to a study described here yesterday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Five University of Alberta researchers, including students, participated in a leading global initiative to determine whether there are widespread and consistent patterns in
plant biodiversity.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last August, marine ecologist Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography sounded an ominous tone: «Mass extinction of multicellular life will result in profound loss of animal and
plant biodiversity, and microbes will reign supreme.»
Today in PLoS one, my lab released «All is not loss:
Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene» — the first spatially explicit global assessment of contemporary patterns of terrestrial plant biodiversity (native loss + exotic species gain) at regional landscape scales.
[download][Online Appendices][blog post: All is not loss:
Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene]
All is not loss:
plant biodiversity in the Anthropocene.