Threatened Species Conservation Act Statutory Review
... medicinal resources; to resist disease; and to adaptively respond to threats such as climate change. Nature’s plants and animals are an intrinsic part of our land and culture and we have a responsibility and a strong interest in their conservation. Key industries, including agriculture, fisheries, b ...
... medicinal resources; to resist disease; and to adaptively respond to threats such as climate change. Nature’s plants and animals are an intrinsic part of our land and culture and we have a responsibility and a strong interest in their conservation. Key industries, including agriculture, fisheries, b ...
- New Zealand Ecological Society
... Since then trends for the control of these mammals include moves from pest-by-pest prioritisation towards site-based and multiple-pest management, extension of large-scale aerial control of predators to include beech forests, increasing intensive management of sites by private and non-government age ...
... Since then trends for the control of these mammals include moves from pest-by-pest prioritisation towards site-based and multiple-pest management, extension of large-scale aerial control of predators to include beech forests, increasing intensive management of sites by private and non-government age ...
Higher Trophic Levels Group - South Bay Salt Pond Restoration
... and/or other key tidal marsh species respond to variations in tidal marsh habitat quality and what are the habitat factors contributing to that response? ...
... and/or other key tidal marsh species respond to variations in tidal marsh habitat quality and what are the habitat factors contributing to that response? ...
Biol 419. Community Ecology - Washington University Department
... your research and to view this assignment as an opportunity to help develop a thesis chapter or manuscript for publication. Graduate students will have the option to work independently. Data sets: All teams will have the opportunity to use data from the Washington University Tyson Research Center P ...
... your research and to view this assignment as an opportunity to help develop a thesis chapter or manuscript for publication. Graduate students will have the option to work independently. Data sets: All teams will have the opportunity to use data from the Washington University Tyson Research Center P ...
Saving the World`s Terrestrial Megafauna
... 10. Urge the development of new funding mechanisms to transfer the current benefits accrued through the existence values of megafauna into tangible payments to support research, conservation actions, and local people who bear the cost of living with wildlife in the places where highly valued megafa ...
... 10. Urge the development of new funding mechanisms to transfer the current benefits accrued through the existence values of megafauna into tangible payments to support research, conservation actions, and local people who bear the cost of living with wildlife in the places where highly valued megafa ...
Manuscript for Marine Ecology Progress Series
... influx of warm water from the equator (Fleischbein et al. 1987), which creates stagnant water conditions with decreased upwelling that can produce local extinctions and regime shifts (Glynn 1998, Harley et al. 2006). Conversely, La Niña years produce intense, persistent upwelling, although the basel ...
... influx of warm water from the equator (Fleischbein et al. 1987), which creates stagnant water conditions with decreased upwelling that can produce local extinctions and regime shifts (Glynn 1998, Harley et al. 2006). Conversely, La Niña years produce intense, persistent upwelling, although the basel ...
Seasonal and Latitudinal Patterns in Rocky Intertidal Communities
... influx of warm water from the equator (Fleischbein et al. 1987), which creates stagnant water conditions with decreased upwelling that can produce local extinctions and regime shifts (Glynn 1998, Harley et al. 2006). Conversely, La Niña years produce intense, persistent upwelling, although the basel ...
... influx of warm water from the equator (Fleischbein et al. 1987), which creates stagnant water conditions with decreased upwelling that can produce local extinctions and regime shifts (Glynn 1998, Harley et al. 2006). Conversely, La Niña years produce intense, persistent upwelling, although the basel ...
Forest for the Trees - Grand Valley State University
... These two species have the largest abundance and total basal area, making up the majority of the canopy. Ask students how these observations influence their opinions about whether the profiles represent one or several forests. Regardless of the position students take, make sure their conclusions ar ...
... These two species have the largest abundance and total basal area, making up the majority of the canopy. Ask students how these observations influence their opinions about whether the profiles represent one or several forests. Regardless of the position students take, make sure their conclusions ar ...
Forest for the Trees - Grand Valley State University
... These two species have the largest abundance and total basal area, making up the majority of the canopy. Ask students how these observations influence their opinions about whether the profiles represent one or several forests. Regardless of the position students take, make sure their conclusions ar ...
... These two species have the largest abundance and total basal area, making up the majority of the canopy. Ask students how these observations influence their opinions about whether the profiles represent one or several forests. Regardless of the position students take, make sure their conclusions ar ...
here - Azuero Earth Project
... border (Wright et al. 2000). Unfortunately, truly protected forests are rare in developing tropical countries. The 59-km2 Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panamá, which is among the best protected, illustrates the problem. Twenty-one game wardens and forest police are dedicated to the protection of t ...
... border (Wright et al. 2000). Unfortunately, truly protected forests are rare in developing tropical countries. The 59-km2 Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panamá, which is among the best protected, illustrates the problem. Twenty-one game wardens and forest police are dedicated to the protection of t ...
Tikina Naviti Conservation Initiative Marine
... In this Fijian context, the term “tabu” encapsulates the protection and nurturing values of the reef thus insuring a life-‐support system for a community, whilst adding value to the Yasawa corrid ...
... In this Fijian context, the term “tabu” encapsulates the protection and nurturing values of the reef thus insuring a life-‐support system for a community, whilst adding value to the Yasawa corrid ...
Review Paper Biodiversity Effects on Aquatic Ecosystem Functioning
... enough support from scientists as well as from experiments and observational studies, it has the potential to evolve into a new central tenet in ecology. A common criticism of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments has been that most of them have used artificially assembled communities with ...
... enough support from scientists as well as from experiments and observational studies, it has the potential to evolve into a new central tenet in ecology. A common criticism of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments has been that most of them have used artificially assembled communities with ...
Resilience Assessment of Lowland Plantations Using an
... farmlands, Europe being the most striking example [4]. On the other hand, human population expansion and colonization still is causing important forest area losses in many tropical countries [5]. However, among tropical countries, the case of Taiwan is probably unique, as rather than dealing with an ...
... farmlands, Europe being the most striking example [4]. On the other hand, human population expansion and colonization still is causing important forest area losses in many tropical countries [5]. However, among tropical countries, the case of Taiwan is probably unique, as rather than dealing with an ...
Behavior and conservation: a bridge too far?
... reversing the decline of small populations. Crossing the divide Conservation biology originally combined principles of ecology [1], population biology [2] and genetics [3] to study how populations and their habitats respond to anthropogenic change, and now applies this knowledge through protection, ...
... reversing the decline of small populations. Crossing the divide Conservation biology originally combined principles of ecology [1], population biology [2] and genetics [3] to study how populations and their habitats respond to anthropogenic change, and now applies this knowledge through protection, ...
Europe`s biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas. The
... many mountain areas with generally negative effects on biodiversity. ...
... many mountain areas with generally negative effects on biodiversity. ...
CV - Northern Arizona University
... Research Focus: Global biodiversity implications of mutualism disruption and novel mutualism formation; cross-boundary connectivity; endangered species research; plant-animal interactions; restoration of interspecific interactions. Additional duties: Co-leading lab initiative to quantitatively a ...
... Research Focus: Global biodiversity implications of mutualism disruption and novel mutualism formation; cross-boundary connectivity; endangered species research; plant-animal interactions; restoration of interspecific interactions. Additional duties: Co-leading lab initiative to quantitatively a ...
The world's richest tadpole communities show functional redundancy and low functional
... communities which are due to their occurrence in primary habitat of particular interest for functional diversity studies. Results: Species richness of tadpole communities is largely determined by characteristics of the larval habitat (stream structure), not by adult habitat (forest structure). Speci ...
... communities which are due to their occurrence in primary habitat of particular interest for functional diversity studies. Results: Species richness of tadpole communities is largely determined by characteristics of the larval habitat (stream structure), not by adult habitat (forest structure). Speci ...
Action Plan No.7 - Environment, Planning and Sustainable
... maintenance of the species’ potential for evolutionary development in the wild. This objective is to be achieved by: • Protecting and managing those sites where habitat of high conservation value remains. • Developing detailed management strategies for remaining sites of lower conservation value whe ...
... maintenance of the species’ potential for evolutionary development in the wild. This objective is to be achieved by: • Protecting and managing those sites where habitat of high conservation value remains. • Developing detailed management strategies for remaining sites of lower conservation value whe ...
Elmqvist
... 2003). Given the present human simplifi- would have absorbed through reorganization supported by response diversity (modication of the biosphere and the ensuing fied from Deutsch et al. 2003). loss of species, we cannot take this capaccontext of response diversity, and finish with a discussion ity f ...
... 2003). Given the present human simplifi- would have absorbed through reorganization supported by response diversity (modication of the biosphere and the ensuing fied from Deutsch et al. 2003). loss of species, we cannot take this capaccontext of response diversity, and finish with a discussion ity f ...
The myriad consequences of hunting for vertebrates and plants in
... border (Wright et al. 2000). Unfortunately, truly protected forests are rare in developing tropical countries. The 59-km2 Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panamá, which is among the best protected, illustrates the problem. Twenty-one game wardens and forest police are dedicated to the protection of t ...
... border (Wright et al. 2000). Unfortunately, truly protected forests are rare in developing tropical countries. The 59-km2 Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panamá, which is among the best protected, illustrates the problem. Twenty-one game wardens and forest police are dedicated to the protection of t ...
Plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic rain forest
... is clearly being made to only one of the various physiognomies of a broader vegetation complex, namely the rain forest sensu stricto. Although broader definitions exist (e.g. Morellato and Haddad, 2000; Oliveira-Filho and Fontes, 2000), Rizzini (1979) has offered the most comprehensive of all. He arg ...
... is clearly being made to only one of the various physiognomies of a broader vegetation complex, namely the rain forest sensu stricto. Although broader definitions exist (e.g. Morellato and Haddad, 2000; Oliveira-Filho and Fontes, 2000), Rizzini (1979) has offered the most comprehensive of all. He arg ...
The effect of human disturbance on fungal diversity in the tropics
... The effects of pesticides on the fungal community have been studied in India (Chandrashekar and Kaveriappa, 1989, 1994). Pesticides may leach into the river system during heavy monsoon rains. The herbicides, paraquat and 2,4dichrophenoxybutyric acid, and the fungicides, mancozeb and captafol, did no ...
... The effects of pesticides on the fungal community have been studied in India (Chandrashekar and Kaveriappa, 1989, 1994). Pesticides may leach into the river system during heavy monsoon rains. The herbicides, paraquat and 2,4dichrophenoxybutyric acid, and the fungicides, mancozeb and captafol, did no ...
Habitat: Shallow Rocky Reef Species (0
... systems to drive the conservation of marine invertebrates in Alaska. Featured marine invertebrate species assemblage templates were designed to highlight key threats to and conservation actions for the given assemblage. These templates are not meant to be exhaustive but rather are meant to act as ca ...
... systems to drive the conservation of marine invertebrates in Alaska. Featured marine invertebrate species assemblage templates were designed to highlight key threats to and conservation actions for the given assemblage. These templates are not meant to be exhaustive but rather are meant to act as ca ...
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... New World primates exhibit a wide variety of subsistence strategies in diverse arboreal settings. Detailed information on subsistence is available for a limited number of populations of some species but extant populations are remnants of those which existed prior to human population expansion and it ...
... New World primates exhibit a wide variety of subsistence strategies in diverse arboreal settings. Detailed information on subsistence is available for a limited number of populations of some species but extant populations are remnants of those which existed prior to human population expansion and it ...
Insect Herbivory in Tropical Forests
... circular reasoning: greater diversity generates greater diversity." Researchers may be uncertairl about the reasons for the large diversity of equatorial insects, but they are confident that tropical regions are the richest reservoir of arthropod species worldwide. The historical hypothesis focuses ...
... circular reasoning: greater diversity generates greater diversity." Researchers may be uncertairl about the reasons for the large diversity of equatorial insects, but they are confident that tropical regions are the richest reservoir of arthropod species worldwide. The historical hypothesis focuses ...
Operation Wallacea
Operation Wallacea (known as Opwall) is an organisation funded by tuition fees that runs a series of biological and conservation management research programmes operating in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. What is different about Operation Wallacea is that large teams of university academics, who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies, are concentrated at the target study sites giving volunteers the opportunity to work on a range of projects. The surveys result in a large number of publications in peer-reviewed journals each year, have resulted in 30 vertebrate species new to science being discovered, 4 'extinct' species being re-discovered and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at the study sites.These large survey teams of academics and volunteers that are funded independently of normal academic sources have enabled large temporal and spatial biodiversity and socio-economic data sets to be produced and provide information to help with organising effective conservation management programmes. Depending on the country, Opwall normally operates both marine and terrestrially based research expeditions, with a variety of research themes, whether they be biological, geological, geographic or social science projects.In 2012/13, the expeditions are operating in 11 countries: Indonesia, Honduras, Cuba, South Africa, Peru, Madagascar, Guyana, Mexico and Romania. In each country, a long-term agreement is signed with a partner organisation (e.g. ICF in Honduras, Fund Amazonia in Peru, Wildlife Ecological Investments in South Africa, Fundatia ADEPT in Romania) and, over the course of this agreement, it is hoped to achieve a survey and management development programme at each of the sites. Occasionally, a competent local partner organisation is not available. In these cases, Operation Wallacea mentors the formation of a new NGO comprising local staff who have provided successful input to the expedition surveys (e.g. Lawane Ecotone for the Indonesian forest, Lembaga Alam for the Indonesian marine sites and Expediciones y Servicios Ambientales de Cusuco for the Honduran cloud forests).