Section 2
... Biodiversity in the United States • The United States includes a wide variety of unique ecosystems, including the Florida Everglades, the California coastal region, Hawaii, the Midwestern prairies, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. • The United States holds unusually high numbers of species ...
... Biodiversity in the United States • The United States includes a wide variety of unique ecosystems, including the Florida Everglades, the California coastal region, Hawaii, the Midwestern prairies, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. • The United States holds unusually high numbers of species ...
Ward – Monitoring: Arthropods
... positively affected by wildfire (including one pest species) may persist at elevated levels for longer. ...
... positively affected by wildfire (including one pest species) may persist at elevated levels for longer. ...
summary - Ascension Island
... Preventing further encroachment by introduced weeds is a high priority and requires immediate attention. Manual control will be necessary until more sustainable solutions can be developed (see below), but this should be achievable with existing resources provided that habitat degradation is not allo ...
... Preventing further encroachment by introduced weeds is a high priority and requires immediate attention. Manual control will be necessary until more sustainable solutions can be developed (see below), but this should be achievable with existing resources provided that habitat degradation is not allo ...
Marine biodiversity: past and present concerns
... Serious scientific efforts in marine biodiversity lagged for many years behind terrestrial research because the seas were considered better buffered against human influence than the land. Only in coastal areas, impacts from pollution, eutrophication and overfishing were considered serious threats, b ...
... Serious scientific efforts in marine biodiversity lagged for many years behind terrestrial research because the seas were considered better buffered against human influence than the land. Only in coastal areas, impacts from pollution, eutrophication and overfishing were considered serious threats, b ...
Conservation 2017 Initiatives Release
... research of the gorillas and chimpanzees whose populations overlap areas of active logging with data of the industry to define the characteristics necessary for "high conservation value" forests. The project conducts health monitoring and assesses risks of disease transmission, and advances prof ...
... research of the gorillas and chimpanzees whose populations overlap areas of active logging with data of the industry to define the characteristics necessary for "high conservation value" forests. The project conducts health monitoring and assesses risks of disease transmission, and advances prof ...
Acoustic Biodiversity of Primary Rainforest Ecosystems
... In 1998, while conducting a field recording campaign on Italian natural soundscapes, I had the intuition that the biophony [1] of untouched forest ecosystems should exhibit a more structured behavior, maximizing efficiency within diversity. I realized that, if properly reproduced, soundscape recordi ...
... In 1998, while conducting a field recording campaign on Italian natural soundscapes, I had the intuition that the biophony [1] of untouched forest ecosystems should exhibit a more structured behavior, maximizing efficiency within diversity. I realized that, if properly reproduced, soundscape recordi ...
Community Ecology
... Why is This Field Important? • Useful for conserving entire communities • Repopulating barren lands • Determining most important species to conserve • Predicting how communities will recover, after disturbance • Predicting community resilience to disturbance • Quantifying what is present for conser ...
... Why is This Field Important? • Useful for conserving entire communities • Repopulating barren lands • Determining most important species to conserve • Predicting how communities will recover, after disturbance • Predicting community resilience to disturbance • Quantifying what is present for conser ...
- proposte sonore
... In 1998, while conducting a field recording campaign on Italian natural soundscapes, I had the intuition that the biophony [1] of untouched forest ecosystems should exhibit a more structured behavior, maximizing efficiency within diversity. I realized that, if properly reproduced, soundscape recordi ...
... In 1998, while conducting a field recording campaign on Italian natural soundscapes, I had the intuition that the biophony [1] of untouched forest ecosystems should exhibit a more structured behavior, maximizing efficiency within diversity. I realized that, if properly reproduced, soundscape recordi ...
Measuring Biodiversity
... Ecosystems depend on the combined contributions of the individual organisms within them. The loss of any species can prevent that ecosystem from operating the way it should. ...
... Ecosystems depend on the combined contributions of the individual organisms within them. The loss of any species can prevent that ecosystem from operating the way it should. ...
Balance in the Biotope - Max-Planck
... Thanks to Biotree, the regulations have now been changed, and Thuringia forestry interns are now trained here on the test site. Biotree met with great interest in Europe and was converted into an EU project for which comparable test areas were established in Belgium, Italy, Finland, Sweden and the C ...
... Thanks to Biotree, the regulations have now been changed, and Thuringia forestry interns are now trained here on the test site. Biotree met with great interest in Europe and was converted into an EU project for which comparable test areas were established in Belgium, Italy, Finland, Sweden and the C ...
customer orientation award submittal form
... des Espaces Naturels” (CREN), ENCEM and the Charente Nature environmental association between 1996 and 1998. These surveys identified 19 threatened plant species, including 8 protected species. Twelve orchid species were also identified. The fauna includes many sensitive species, rare species and sp ...
... des Espaces Naturels” (CREN), ENCEM and the Charente Nature environmental association between 1996 and 1998. These surveys identified 19 threatened plant species, including 8 protected species. Twelve orchid species were also identified. The fauna includes many sensitive species, rare species and sp ...
Measuring Biodiversity
... Ecosystems depend on the combined contributions of the individual organisms within them. The loss of any species can prevent that ecosystem from operating the way it should. ...
... Ecosystems depend on the combined contributions of the individual organisms within them. The loss of any species can prevent that ecosystem from operating the way it should. ...
all poster abstracts
... In the last decades, researchers have focused on developing new strategies to preserve biodiversity at the ecosystem level. In this context, protected areas were created to provide a landscape level protection of biodiversity dynamics. Furthermore, this approach often assumes that rather stable ecos ...
... In the last decades, researchers have focused on developing new strategies to preserve biodiversity at the ecosystem level. In this context, protected areas were created to provide a landscape level protection of biodiversity dynamics. Furthermore, this approach often assumes that rather stable ecos ...
Sam O`s outline
... standard environmental organizations (e.g., CI, WWF), in addition to international corporations such as Shell; what does this tell us about motivations for the park? -current issues: increasing concern with national security; connectivity conservation/landscape ecology, grizzly corridor (Y2Y) 2. A ...
... standard environmental organizations (e.g., CI, WWF), in addition to international corporations such as Shell; what does this tell us about motivations for the park? -current issues: increasing concern with national security; connectivity conservation/landscape ecology, grizzly corridor (Y2Y) 2. A ...
Managing coral reefs
... River catchment areas must be considered and managed in order to ensure the successful management of an entire reef,. This can be done via legislation on development in these areas, in order to limit run off increases and dredging and therefore decrease the sedimentation and eutrophication potential ...
... River catchment areas must be considered and managed in order to ensure the successful management of an entire reef,. This can be done via legislation on development in these areas, in order to limit run off increases and dredging and therefore decrease the sedimentation and eutrophication potential ...
Effects of afforestation on biodiversity
... In the Icelandic case study, the total number of invertebrate species living on the soil surface is similar for the different habitat types, i.e. heathlands, native birch forests and exotic coniferous stands, but species composition is radically different. ...
... In the Icelandic case study, the total number of invertebrate species living on the soil surface is similar for the different habitat types, i.e. heathlands, native birch forests and exotic coniferous stands, but species composition is radically different. ...
Biodiversity and risk patterns of freshwater megafauna Global
... Biodiversity and risk patterns of freshwater megafauna Fengzhi He Your picture Significance: Coupled with the susceptibility of megafauna to anthropogenic threats and the fact that freshwaters habitats have experienced extensive degradation because of human activities, it can be hypothesised that fr ...
... Biodiversity and risk patterns of freshwater megafauna Fengzhi He Your picture Significance: Coupled with the susceptibility of megafauna to anthropogenic threats and the fact that freshwaters habitats have experienced extensive degradation because of human activities, it can be hypothesised that fr ...
Answers to Check Your Understanding Questions
... 17. The shift involves the way people view the sustainability of ecosystems and the use of resources on Earth. The shift involves the way people think about the consequences of our actions and how our actions affect our ecosystems and all of Earth’s systems—the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydros ...
... 17. The shift involves the way people view the sustainability of ecosystems and the use of resources on Earth. The shift involves the way people think about the consequences of our actions and how our actions affect our ecosystems and all of Earth’s systems—the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydros ...
Dr Philippe Chardonnet
... are not restricted to production services and generation of income. Wildlife ranching also sets aside extensive tracts of land as wilderness areas, which are powerful tools for (i) conserving biodiversity, and (ii) guaranteeing the functioning of ecosystem services at global and local levels. In Sou ...
... are not restricted to production services and generation of income. Wildlife ranching also sets aside extensive tracts of land as wilderness areas, which are powerful tools for (i) conserving biodiversity, and (ii) guaranteeing the functioning of ecosystem services at global and local levels. In Sou ...
Chap 7 14e
... – Tropical: Found near the equator with a warm and wet climate; ideal for a wide variety of plants and animals. • Dominated by broadleaf evergreen plants keep most of their leaves year-round. There is little vegetation on the forest floor because the dense tree-top canopy blocks most light from reac ...
... – Tropical: Found near the equator with a warm and wet climate; ideal for a wide variety of plants and animals. • Dominated by broadleaf evergreen plants keep most of their leaves year-round. There is little vegetation on the forest floor because the dense tree-top canopy blocks most light from reac ...
Supersized MPAs and the marginalization of species conservation
... newborn at a time in zoo-based captive breeding programmes, before being reintroduced into the wild, often into newly restored or protected habitats (Redford et al., 2011). Governments also employ species protection legislation to minimize threats through enforced spatial protection of critical habi ...
... newborn at a time in zoo-based captive breeding programmes, before being reintroduced into the wild, often into newly restored or protected habitats (Redford et al., 2011). Governments also employ species protection legislation to minimize threats through enforced spatial protection of critical habi ...
3.1 Introduction to Biodiversity - Amazing World of Science with Mr
... Only a tiny proportion of these have, however, been identified e.g. 75,000 out of a predicted 600,000 arachnids or 7,000 out of a predicted 1,000,000 million fungi! Approximately 1.4 million species have been named and described. Of these, 750,000 are insects, 41,000 are vertebrates and 270,000 are ...
... Only a tiny proportion of these have, however, been identified e.g. 75,000 out of a predicted 600,000 arachnids or 7,000 out of a predicted 1,000,000 million fungi! Approximately 1.4 million species have been named and described. Of these, 750,000 are insects, 41,000 are vertebrates and 270,000 are ...
THE GAMMA FOREST AT BROOKHAVEN
... Data obtained in the course of a recent study (Superina 1998) ranged from sediment chemistry and size to vegetational analysis. This paper will show geobotanical relationships by integrating the geological, chemical, and botanical data obtained during the study. The data was obtained in the Gamma Fo ...
... Data obtained in the course of a recent study (Superina 1998) ranged from sediment chemistry and size to vegetational analysis. This paper will show geobotanical relationships by integrating the geological, chemical, and botanical data obtained during the study. The data was obtained in the Gamma Fo ...
Biodiversity - California Institute of Integral Studies
... decreasing as species become extinct—often due to human interference—and genetic diversity is decreasing, especially through monocropping in agriculture. Species diversity rises and falls throughout time. Paleontologists have identified five major extinctions, including the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinct ...
... decreasing as species become extinct—often due to human interference—and genetic diversity is decreasing, especially through monocropping in agriculture. Species diversity rises and falls throughout time. Paleontologists have identified five major extinctions, including the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinct ...
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).