followed by interviews and questionnaires about biodiversity with individual households. Â These studies are helping both researchers
Will we continue on a path of global climate change, land-use change, resource depletion, biodiversity loss and population expansion?
Biodiversity would recover in many cases, due to reduced human encroachment on habitats hunting and pollution.
That means losing some 1. 2 million square kilometres of other landscapes to urban construction alone, many of them rich in biodiversity.
improve water quality and increase biodiversity. Â These developments in living technology suggest that we will evolve solutions using the transformational properties of natural systems.
reducing the region's scale and biodiversity. But this felling also has an impact on the planet as a whole
Barnosky studies biodiversity changes and extinction rates that occurred in the deep past, and compares them to trends happening now.
or Age of man, will be marked by a rapid decline in biodiversity as animals and plants disappear from the planet forever.
enabling the separated biodiversity to mix for the first time. This happened when the North and South american continents collided into each other, around 3 million years ago, for example.
But many of these areas are protected in name only oe the parts of the world with the greatest biodiversity are often in the poorest and most troubled regions
It is fairly certain that the Anthropocene will be a time of much poorer biodiversity. Once-common species will be extinct,
and others, discussing our impacts on the planet's biodiversity and geology, in a four-part series called The Age We Made,
have caused biodiversity changes in which more than 90%of the weight of all terrestrial vertebrates is made now up of humans
much of our biodiversity has been lost irrevocably, and we're still pumping out greenhouse gases. Others point out that there is more than enough environmental space on this planet for everyone to live sustainably,
and reducing biodiversity. At the same time, our global population will grow from seven billion to nine billion by 2050,
or"biodiversity loss Â. Others contest that there are either no biophysical thresholds for these, or that we are far from reaching them.
adding that we already have for three of the nine (climate change, nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss).
we are inevitably losing different species. Saving biodiversity would cost $300 billion a year, according to the chief of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
and conserve local biodiversity by, for example, helping keep the herbivore numbers down, which allows tree saplings to mature.
Declining Rural Biodiversity Unfortunately, though, the success of bees in the city also serves to further highlight their struggles in the countryside,
where declining rural biodiversity has made it hard out there for a pollen eater. oewe did an analysis of the honey we made here in Paris
a government agency that protects and conserves the countrys biodiversity, and struggled to find enough resources to cope with last years fires. oewhat is most frustrating is that
climate change and biodiversity. Exactly how these systems will be affected remains to be studied. Parker and Mcmahons paper focuses on the drivers of the accelerated tree growth.
#Scientists Identify Ecuadors Yasuni National park as One of Most Biodiverse Places On earth Crowned like a king, the spike-headed katydid,
and its biodiversity. oethis study demonstrates that Yasunã is the most diverse area in South america,
600-acre Tiputini Biodiversity Station on the northern edge of the park. oethe Tiputini Biodiversity Station is home to 247 amphibian and reptile species,
Ecuador. oewhat makes Yasunã especially important is its potential to sustain this extraordinary biodiversity in the long term,
The detrimental impact that GMO cultivation has on our environment is widespread including creating dead zones where biodiversity is abolished all but and the contamination of heirloom and organic seeds with GMO varieties.
Micro agronomy is based on the notion that a decentralized food growers network will lead to greater biodiversity,
and greater biodiversity will lead to a healthier supply chain to meet the hyper-individualized needs and desires of future generations.
India s biodiversity is fast depleting. We are destroying these habitats without mercy.##The chikilidae s home in long-ignored tropical forests now faces drastic change under programs to cut trees,
farming in the US heartland can be pushed toward a model based on biodiversity over monocropping, farmer skill in place of brute chemicals,
To preserve biodiversity and genetic diversity. To undo harm that humans have caused in the past. To restore diminished ecosystems.
The world's level ofâ biodiversity is also down by 30 percentâ since the 1970s according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund a conservation group.
Ultimately the loss of biodiversity will hurt you as you dear humans are part of the web of life.
Even so from 2000 to 2010 for example about 93000 square miles (240000 square kilometers) of the Amazon rainforest were razed covering an area roughly the size of the United kingdom. 3. Protect areas with high biodiversity Not all areas are created equal.
which has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet but is threatened by deforestation and development.
which is unrecognized a major factor in the decline of coral reefs top spots for biodiversity (see Resolution#3). 6. Better manage fisheries
The old-fashioned technique of breeding plants is still very active drawing on natural biodiversity he said.
That's a much smaller number than anyone anticipated study lead author Hans ter Steege a tropical forest ecologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden Netherlands said in a statement.
China is also rich in biodiversity and is a top market for wildlife and its parts.
Biodiversity Closely related to deforestation and desertification is the issue of habitat loss and the resulting drop in biodiversity.
As vast areas of forest are cleared for farmland bamboo plantations timber and fuel wood endangered animals like pandas struggle to survive.
An important ecosystem Southeastern Suriname is important above and beyond its role as a biodiversity hotspot the scientists found.
This is not only a biodiversity tragedy but also has negative consequences for medicinal research and local populations who rely on the animals and plants in the forests for hunting and medicine.
All told China is considered one of the mega-biodiversity countries with more than 6500 species of vertebrates.
The overall biodiversity in China is in decline despite partial improvement in some places Fan added.
Biodiversity can refer to variability of life within a species'gene pool an ecosystem and on a much larger scale the entire planet.
Conservationists often strive to preserve high biodiversity which is considered a signature of a healthy ecosystem.
or those seeking gluten-free products said study researcher Steven Newmaster an integrative biology professor and botanical director of the University of Guelph's Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
Holocene extinction Pressure from the human population has had far-reaching effects on the biodiversity of the planet.
Just as researchers have used genetics to improve food production it can also provide solutions that maintain biodiversity
(when placed in the right spots at the right time) have shown both biodiversity and abundance rebounds for over-fished regions
Future frontiers of agricultural expansion will most likely be in the tropics as people clear high-biodiversity tropical forests to raise cattle grow soy
One of his primary work sites is Kaziranga National park. The area's rich biodiversity has earned it recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The ABC recently reported that 400 people in the Philippines trampled vitamin-enriched oegolden rice trial crops because of fears to human health and biodiversity.
Now the team is working to map primary forest native habitat that is crucial for biodiversity
The question said Patricia Ryberg a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute is coped how plants with photosynthesizing constantly for part of the year and then not at all when the winter sun set.
Scientists are concerned particularly about habitat loss in a few key places with the highest levels of biodiversity such as the Tropical Andes the rainforests of Central america the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil Southeast asia and many Pacific
From 1976 to 2003 for example booming demand for rubber led rubber farmers to clear 20 percent of the rainforest of Xidai Prefecture a lush region home to high levels of biodiversity in south-central
China according to a 2007 study in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. But in China especially and throughout Southeast asia demand has skyrocketed also for the animals themselves or at least parts of their bodies.
People need to take steps to create an economic value for the lands where biodiversity is concentrated Moss said.
We don't really value biodiversity directly now except when we exploit it. Ecotourism is one way to do this.
which would reduce the need for the clearing of biodiversity-rich forests far afield from bustling metropolises Weissburg said.
I hope that increased public knowledge of declining nature will raise society's priority to conserve biodiversity.
and regularity of global water supplies gobble up carbon dioxide house vital biodiversity hotspots and provide shelter for half a billion people.
In our study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology we re-analysed data collected on biodiversity one potential environmental benefit of organic farming.
which biodiversity on conventional and organic farms was compared. This was measured in terms of species richness (the number of different species in a particular area or time rather than the number of individuals.
while there are benefits to biodiversity lower yields mean more land is required to grow the same amount of food.
This means that the biodiversity benefits or otherwise to many familiar tropical crops such as bananas or cacao beans simply haven t been assessed.
and biodiversity even more important and this should be the focus of further research. A new aspect to our study was to use maps obtained from Google earth to quantify land use in the areas surrounding the study farms.
This is probably because the biodiversity on conventional farms in such areas is correspondingly lower. In which case perhaps we should deliberately encourage the scattering of organic farms around the landscape to maximise their impact.
But even now efforts are being made to improve the natural biodiversity of conventional farmland such as through the European Common Agricultural Policy s new greening#measures that came into force in January.
These recognise the disastrous effect intensive agriculture has had on biodiversity and acknowledge the current failure to prevent further losses.
or hedgerows and wider crop diversity provides biodiversity benefits is variable. Much will depend on the way they are interpreted and implemented farm by farm.
and further study will help them understand the forest ecology and biodiversity in this region immediately before the dinosaurs fell.
and total numbers) between trees and herbivores but that may not actually be true according to Jeff Ollerton professor of biodiversity at the University of Northampton.
Biodiversity Abounds: Stunning Photos of the Amazon According to MODIS algorithms an area is covered likely in green vegetation
Biodiversity of the Amazon (Photos) Questions answered The discovery that the human activity came before the forest answers some questions like how Amazonian people could have built in the rainforest with no more than stone tools (they didn't have to) how many people would have been necessary to construct the structures (fewer than
The gut microbiota is another dimension of animal biodiversity particularly when the animals have distinctive
Colony Collapse Disorder While Moran and her colleagues are primarily trying to gain a basic understanding of biodiversity
Biodiversity Abounds: Stunning Photos of the Amazon For the project FAS uses Open Data Kit (ODK) a set of tools designed to help organizations collect
and the public to work together to uncover the biodiversity hidden in own backyard. Derek Hennen received funding from the Ohio Biological Survey.
The most prominent biodiversity offset projects are underpinned by poor science when it comes to quantifying losses
and gains despite claims from the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme a collaboration of industry banks and government agenies that the process is transparent#and science-based#.
To measure the net benefits the company would need to deduce from its calculation the passive restoration that may have occurred for different key biodiversity attributes without any offset investment.
The issues of additionality and leakage are dealt poorly with in existing biodiversity offset projects and as a result they are much less effective than they could be.
whether the biodiversity gains are permanent. After all the impacts of a mining project can be considered permanent
What if the two sites have different biodiversity? Is it possible to compare apples and oranges?
Biodiversity offsetting should not just be about protecting ecosystems. The approach should also be fair to local communities not least
because biodiversity is often the commodity of the poor. Again in the Rio tinto case the utilitarian value of the biodiversity to communities turned out to have a much higher conservation importance than was anticipated by the company.
For example the company s 680 hectares measurement of habitat loss becomes 1396 hectares when calculated according to the amount of utilitarian plant diversity lost to local communities.
do touted biodiversity offsets by mining companies actually work? First we should acknowledge that efforts by many companies including first and foremost by Rio tinto in aiming to create a net positive biodiversity impact for all mining operations is a laudable one.
But as the science of offsetting evolves these companies need to keep up-to date and develop better ways of quantifying the losses and gains.
This will help them design ways to deliver biodiversity gains that are genuine additional permanent and fair to local communities.
More than half of all terrestrial biodiversity lives in forests. But humans are failing to preserve these crucial ecosystems Steer told reporters before the launch.
While Madagascar is one of the world s top biodiversity hotspots lemurs easily represent the country s brand#for drawing ecotourists.
This vast forest is rich in biodiversity including no fewer than 13 lemur species. With good transport links to the capital
Researchers from universities around the world have worked with local schools to develop a heightened appreciation of the unique biodiversity there.
Livestock affect most of the world's biodiversity hotspots Liu said. They make up 20 percent of all of the earth's land mammals
The top 10 is designed to bring attention to the unsung heroes who are addressing the biodiversity crisis by working to complete an inventory of Earth's plants animals
Centre Valbio which is funded partially by the National Science Foundation is a pivotal hub for researching rainforest biodiversity and conservation and for conducting outreach to the community and policy makers.
Stunning Photos of Amazon Biodiversity It's a headline-making conservation story and truly deserving of international attention:
the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund a private nonprofit organization that designs and manages financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation;
and has led to the launch of a longer-term project to monitor the biodiversity of bees in New hampshire.
and food systems the program called Feed the Future will also increase the biodiversity of goat breeds across the world making it a true win-win.
Myanmar one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in Asia has also several species of rosewood highly prized by the Chinese furniture trade.
Livestock affect most of the world's biodiversity hotspots Jianguo Jack Liu a human-environment scientist at Michigan State said in a statement.
Located 300 miles (483 kilometers) north of the Arctic circle Wrangel Island boasts the highest biodiversity in the Arctic including the biggest population of Pacific walruses and the greatest density of polar bear dens.
The driving force behind the project designed by researchers at Nottingham Trent University was unprecedented the rate of declining global biodiversity caused by an increasing human population.
since past extinctions actually have led to increases in biodiversity due to the opening of new environmental niches.
The benefit of the terrestrial protected areas where human activities are regulated to protect biodiversity and endangered species for example is not clear for the inhabitants around them
even though biodiversity may indeed benefit. Some climate adaptation and mitigation actions are no-regret decisions (the cost-to-benefit ratio can easily be justified)
and learn about the biodiversity of the ecosystems the animated characters are discovering. Children also are encouraged to investigate their real-world surroundings
Nature Newslike many remote islands, the Galapagos islands that fired Charles darwin's imagination are both a hotbed of biodiversity
Nature Newstropical forest that has regrown after clear-cutting can become almost as biodiverse as untouched forest, according to new research.
The results, presented at a tropical biodiversity symposium last week in WASHINGTON DC suggest these regrown areas may be worthy of conservation,
not just focusing on the pristine biodiverse gems, says Thomas Lovejoy, biodiversity chair of the Heinz Center in WASHINGTON DC,
who was associated not with the study. The symposium, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, brought together biologists, policymakers,
Chazdon and her colleagues assessed tree biodiversity changes in northeastern Costa rica by surveying 18 hectares of preserved old-growth forest and 11 hectares of secondary forest,
is the task leader of the bank's Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
The initiative also tries to raise awareness of biodiversity among villagers and help them to plan
and biodiversity offsets to help conserve the land and reduce poverty. Meanwhile, Chen is looking to turn the XTBG into a Chinese version of the Panama-based Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
The XTBG is also seeking a greater advocacy and policy role in biodiversity conservation in the region.
%because it was thought this level of protection was necessary for biodiversity conservation. He says that it is recognized now that protecting forests is also important for efforts to stabilize climate change
so if we are failing to meet the target it could be even worse for climate stabilization than for biodiversity.
The authors also include the 34'biodiversity hotspots'identified by Conservation International (CI), a non-governmental organization based in Arlington, Virginia.
on average, 10.2%of the forests in areas designated as biodiversity hotspots by the CI were protected.
Burgess says it is good news that many of the most important areas for biodiversity are being protected at a level above the 10%target.
The perils to biodiversity are increasing too, he says.
Forest growth studies begin to turn up the heat: Nature Newsacross the United states, researchers are firing up experiments to determine how rising temperatures could reshape the nation's forests.
Although there is an extensive body of data about the way that climate change could affect habitats and biodiversity,
So even though the region could lose a lot of biodiversity and a large proportion of its carbon stock,
But these systems had many negative consequences for the environment, such as water pollution and reduction of biodiversity.
Guy Poppy, a chemical ecologist from the University of Southampton, UK, agrees that the method should allow farmers to reduce crop damage without eradicating the entire population of pests in a field's ecosystem-allowing biodiversity to remain mostly unchanged.
Abraham announced the new numbers on biodiversity threats compiled over 20 years of laboratory and field studies last month,
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study pointed to the ample financial returns of investment in protecting natural areas such as mangroves, tropical forests and grasslands.
and agriculture'and'mobilizing agricultural biodiversity for food security and resilience'.('By contrast, donors currently fund individual centres directly,
In another, climate policies result in a world full of forest plantations that are created solely to store the greatest possible amount of carbon, with no regard for preserving biodiversity.
conserve biodiversity and preserve local cultures. Support for forest protection programmes was one of the few successes during last December's climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark,
with programmes on antibacterial drug development and protein-protein interactions as drug targets. www. drugdiscoverychemistry. com 28-29 april A symposium hosted by the Zoological Society of London examines the link between the conservation of biodiversity
The protected biodiversity hot spot covers more than half a million square kilometres of ocean, and will include a'no-take'reserve where all commercial fishing is banned.
Nature Newsthe conservation of biodiversity is touted often as a win-win solution both for the environment and for the world's poorest people,
The studies also highlighted the lack of good-quality empirical data on biodiversity and poverty alleviation,
and documents on projects that sought to conserve biodiversity and alleviate poverty. He and his team found that about 150 of these showed at least some evidence that the projects had benefited the poor.
 ve about the contribution that biodiversity can make to poverty reduction and that they need to be more rigorous in assessing costs and benefits.
Conserving biodiversity often acts as a critical safety net that prevents poor people from falling further into poverty,
For instance, at an upcoming summit in September, world leaders will discuss the contribution of biodiversity to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
It also highlights an often-neglected aspect of biodiversity. Organic agriculture promotes more balanced communities of predators,
Understanding evenness can be extremely useful to those studying biodiversity agrees Marc Cadotte, a community ecologist at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Evenness is a critical component of biodiversity, says Cadotte. Much research has emphasized species richness, maybe at the detriment of studying evenness.
and wreak havoc on biodiversity. The study's results suggest that further agricultural intensification will play a critical part in addressing global warming.
to decide whether to establish an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. http://ipbes. net/8-12 june Oslo boasts the'largest polar science gathering ever'at a conference on the 2007-08 International Polar Year. http://www. ipy
because replanting native forests with nonnative trees damages local biodiversity, says Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen.
making plants more threatened than birds, according to the first global analysis of the status of plant biodiversity.
Existing indicators of biodiversity such as the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) focus mainly on vertebrates,
what is happening to the world's biodiversity, says Nic Lughadha. Stephen Harris, curator of the Oxford university Herbaria
Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, says that the assessment will help countries to measure progress towards new targets to halt loss of the world's biodiversity by 2020,
The 2020 biodiversity target that will be discussed in Nagoya is ambitious, but in a time of increasing loss of biodiversity it is entirely appropriate to scale up our efforts,
says Hooper. We need a renewed commitment to care for biodiversity.
Plants set stage for evolutionary drama: Nature Newsplants made the evolution of large, complex animals such as predatory fish possible,
a study of ocean sediments suggests. The findings, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1,
and nurseries to monitor these islands of bee biodiversity, she adds. Scientists at the conference also identified a need for basic research into bumblebee genetic diversity.
and a range of other factors that would have economic impacts such as forestry and biodiversity loss.
and will look at changes to biodiversity and the resources and processes provided by the ecosystem as the forest is logged
Other projects have focused mainly on a single issue such as trees or biodiversity. For instance, the project will look at which animal species survive in a forest as the level of logging intensifies until the land is converted fully into an oil-palm plantation.
We want to use the data to optimally design future forest clearance for agricultural income and biodiversity.
which are a reservoir of biodiversity and carbon, he adds. More a confirmation than a surprise was that in the past 15 years
Biodiversity's ills not all down to climate change: Nature Newsclimate change is affecting the world in many ways.
But attempts to directly link local changes in species distribution and biodiversity to climate warming hold little promise, ecologists warn in Nature Climate Change1.
Climate change is impacting biodiversity worldwide. Spring comes, on average, two weeks earlier. Almost two-thirds of species, including many birds, frogs, butterflies, trees and grassland flowers, breed or bloom earlier.
Fisher's team performed an in depth analysis of the area around the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania-a biodiversity'hot spot'-to find out how the United nations'enhanced Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
increase food security and have a positive impact on biodiversity for a pretty low cost, Fisher says.
but Adams cautions that it suggests no overarching strategy for conserving biodiversity while reducing poverty.
The parties settled for a declaration of goodwill about the biodiversity, climate, economic and social importance of their regions.
The Amazon basin in South america, the Congo Basin in Central africa and the Borneo-Mekong Basin in Southeast asia are home to about 80%of the world's rainforests and two-thirds of global terrestrial biodiversity.
But there is a momentum around biodiversity and forests at the moment we're in a good flow
when it comes to political commitment for biodiversity and forests. Some nations used the conference to announce new forestry plans.
But the biodiversity of farmland birds declined by 43%between 1970 and 1998. Continued population growth and climate change in the country will probably put more pressure on ecosystems in the future, further reducing benefits and services.
such as The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), a European effort to assess the global economic benefits of biodiversity,
which began in 2007. The UK National Ecosystem Assessment is advanced the most interdisciplinary assessment of ecosystems
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