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«There is as much plant biodiversity in the Mojave as there is in a redwood forest.

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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.

Our partners in the Peruvian Amazon, ACOPAGRO cooperative, strategically plant native trees in the forest, naturally sequestering CO2, replenishing the forest canopy, increasing biodiversity, protecting against soil erosion, and preserving the fragile ecosystem that provides their livelihood.

The environmental stewardship commitment by Halter Ranch Vineyard owner Hansjörg Wyss is demonstrated by the decision to preserve 1,700 acres of the Halter Ranch property with 18 % planted to vineyards that work in harmony with the undeveloped acres to provide habitat, wildlife corridors and biodiversity.

And in the rush to increase production, it caused a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of diverse native trees) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

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

Low levels of productivity were a direct result of these conditions, but also as a consequence of low levels of organic matter in the soil (between 0.3 and 1 percent), acidity (pH fluctuating between 4.5 and 5) and low biodiversity (only 2 to 7 plant species were found in the agricultural systems and only 1 to 8 species in the forest systems).

The huge worldwide surge in demand for coffee has resulted in a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of a diverse understory) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

A deficiency than pushing Golden Rice is biodiversity conservation and propagation of plants naturally rich vit A and other nutrients in agriculture and food.

Providing a wide range of plant and animal life, in wild and cultivated areas — which protect biodiversity and the health of the ecosystem — allows farms to be fully integrated into the natural world.

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.

Reporting their latest results in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, scientists in Germany based at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) together with researchers from the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spPlants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spplants so special.

The study of the current biodiversity of plants thus enables us to go back in time and gradually sketch the genetic portrait of the common ancestor of a large proportion of modern - day flowers.

Nitrogen saturation can cause a cascade of adverse effects including a decrease in biodiversity, changes in plant species, soil acidification and water contamination.

Already projects are being designed to store carbon over decades in newly planted native vegetation, to restore connectivity and biodiversity in large - scale protected areas, and to train workers in restoring and maintaining wetlands and removing invasive species.

Companies say the innovation is needed to safeguard their investments in improved plant varieties, but an array of critics contends that it will further marginalize the world's poorest farmers and erode crop biodiversity.

«The Lake Eyre Basin is crucial to Australia's biodiversity — at least 65 animal species and 13 plant species are found in its iconic and threatened Mound Spring ecosystems, and other threatened species such as the Greater Bilby, Yellow - Footed Rock Wallaby also live there.

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

That was followed by a 1 - year postgraduate program in forest resources and sustainable development, during which she studied plant interactions, biodiversity, geographical systems, and economics.

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.

The letter's authors are Carnegie's Jose Dinneny; Noah Fahlgren, Rebecca Bart, and Daniel Chitwood of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO; and Luis Herrera Estrella and Rubén Rellán Álvarez of the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity in Mexico.

«Increases in the number of plant - eating tropical fish can profoundly alter ecosystems and lead to barren reefs, affecting the biodiversity of these regions, with significant economic and management impacts.»

course in biodiversity and taxonomy of plants.

You know, that is, we could create a world, where we combated and mitigated climate change but without paying attention to what's going on in the realm of biodiversity, we could save the climate and wake up in a world with so many fewer plants and animals.

«To see if they play a role in promoting rainforest biodiversity, we sprayed plots with Ridomil Gold ®, which protects plants against oomycetes.

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.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

Conserving green spaces, restoring native plant species and adding biodiversity - friendly habitats within urban landscapes could, in turn, support more bird and plant species.

«In the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USIn the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USin their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USin the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

The research group, along with government and NGO partners in Sabah, are in the process of generating a portfolio of ecological maps, ranging from forest carbon stocks to plant and animal biodiversity.

In contrast to a backdrop of diverse wildflowers, bees, butterflies and birds — commonly seen in 19th - century landscape paintings — modern wooded areas are now overrun by imported invasive plants, choking out most native species and disrupting much of the natural biodiversitIn contrast to a backdrop of diverse wildflowers, bees, butterflies and birds — commonly seen in 19th - century landscape paintings — modern wooded areas are now overrun by imported invasive plants, choking out most native species and disrupting much of the natural biodiversitin 19th - century landscape paintings — modern wooded areas are now overrun by imported invasive plants, choking out most native species and disrupting much of the natural biodiversity.

And, would planting more diverse forests result in any biodiversity benefits while also being economically feasible?»

Researchers studying plants, ants, birds, dung beetles and orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon have found clear evidence that deforestation causes drastic loss of tropical forest biodiversity.

The research team — which included scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sichuan University, the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and the University of Vermont — wanted to investigate how these approaches to planting influenced biodiversity.

New research led by Princeton University and published in the journal Nature Communications finds that China's Grain - for - Green Program overwhelmingly plants monoculture forests and therefore falls dramatically short of restoring the biodiversity of China's native forests, which contain many tree species.

«Climate change risk for half of plant and animal species in biodiversity hotspots: The Amazon, Miombo Woodlands in Southern Africa, and southwest Australia will be among the most affected places in the world, according to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by WWF.»

The complex geology and high rates of biodiversity in the region — currently home to an estimated 7,452 plant and animal species — make it a potential «natural stronghold» in the fight against climate change, according to a new, multimillion - dollar study by the Nature Conservancy.

Felicia Keesing of Bard College in Annandale, New York, and her colleagues reviewed 15 diseases of plants and animals and found that for 13, contagion increased when biodiversity fell.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

Utilizing their specimens in order to better understand plant biodiversity and evolution is a clear way to honor and build upon this legacy.»

Now working in the STRI herbarium, Flores has also been an intern at the Missouri Botanical Garden where he identified plants collected during a project led by Alicia Ibáñez as part of the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group's efforts to inventory botanically underexplored areas in Panama.

Entitled «Plant diversity in Southeast Asia» the special issue hosts twelve articles devoted to the cause of promoting awareness the biodiversity richness of the region while raising concerns on its conservation.

More than 60 researchers from a number of universities were involved, including the Technical University of Munich, the Institute of Plant Sciences at the University of Bern and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt.

In comparison, plant biodiversity accounts for 42 %.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalIn this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalin order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

But fields of switchgrass and mixed prairie — planted mixtures of perennial grasses and flowering plants — enhanced biodiversity and improved ecosystem services, Landis and colleagues report January 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

General patterns of biodiversity effects may be more apparent if scientists consider the diversity in plant traits rather than simply species numbers.