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A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research
... results; but rather to help identify issues that are perceived as relevant by the participants, and to generate questions and hypotheses, in this case for example about public attitudes and notions of biodiversity. The method allows participants to pursue their own priorities on their own terms and ...
... results; but rather to help identify issues that are perceived as relevant by the participants, and to generate questions and hypotheses, in this case for example about public attitudes and notions of biodiversity. The method allows participants to pursue their own priorities on their own terms and ...
AEWA Contribution to Aichi 2020 and Relevance of SDGs
... Similarly, these issues are also relevant to freshwater fisheries (some of which are of major significance both for waterbirds and people), and where conflicts can exist between birds and fishermen. It is a priority to ensure that the scale and extent of shell-fisheries do not impact on food resourc ...
... Similarly, these issues are also relevant to freshwater fisheries (some of which are of major significance both for waterbirds and people), and where conflicts can exist between birds and fishermen. It is a priority to ensure that the scale and extent of shell-fisheries do not impact on food resourc ...
Unit 1 - OpenWetWare
... 10. Distinguish between energy pyramids and biomass pyramids. Explain why both relationships are in the form of pyramids. Explain the special circumstances of inverted biomass pyramids. 11. Explain why food pyramids usually have only four or five trophic levels 12. Define the pyramid of numbers. 13. ...
... 10. Distinguish between energy pyramids and biomass pyramids. Explain why both relationships are in the form of pyramids. Explain the special circumstances of inverted biomass pyramids. 11. Explain why food pyramids usually have only four or five trophic levels 12. Define the pyramid of numbers. 13. ...
Red-legged Pademelon - Byron Shire Council
... ranges. The lowland rainforests of the Big Scrub would once have been prime habitat for this species. The fragmented Big Scrub remnants of the Byron Shire do not appear to support this species, however southern Big Scrub reserves at Victoria Park and Davis Scrub Nature Reserve on the Alstonville Pla ...
... ranges. The lowland rainforests of the Big Scrub would once have been prime habitat for this species. The fragmented Big Scrub remnants of the Byron Shire do not appear to support this species, however southern Big Scrub reserves at Victoria Park and Davis Scrub Nature Reserve on the Alstonville Pla ...
Table of Contents - New England Conference Company
... Comparison of two methods to sample pest and beneficial invertebrates in crops and native vegetation FOFI5M: taking threatened species recovery to the next level Landscape scale conservation: incentives for cross property action Kangaroos and conservation: can people be better predators? Grazing eco ...
... Comparison of two methods to sample pest and beneficial invertebrates in crops and native vegetation FOFI5M: taking threatened species recovery to the next level Landscape scale conservation: incentives for cross property action Kangaroos and conservation: can people be better predators? Grazing eco ...
Table of Contents - Cheetah Conservation Fund
... Many people fear predators, especially big cats such as the lion, cheetah, and leopard. We are often taught to fear carnivores without understanding their unique behaviours, special adaptations, and essential roles in the maintenance of healthy ecosystems. Our attitudes and misconceptions about thes ...
... Many people fear predators, especially big cats such as the lion, cheetah, and leopard. We are often taught to fear carnivores without understanding their unique behaviours, special adaptations, and essential roles in the maintenance of healthy ecosystems. Our attitudes and misconceptions about thes ...
report - Tufts Institute of the Environment
... the Department of Biology, on the biological aspects of these questions. I will be working with collaborator Dr. Marc D’Alarcao in the Department of Chemistry at Tufts to analyze chemical samples and characterize potentially novel natural products. I have already collected preliminary data on the fo ...
... the Department of Biology, on the biological aspects of these questions. I will be working with collaborator Dr. Marc D’Alarcao in the Department of Chemistry at Tufts to analyze chemical samples and characterize potentially novel natural products. I have already collected preliminary data on the fo ...
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in angiosperm
... identity affect ecosystem functioning in terms of processes such as primary production, nutrient availability, epifaunal colonization and properties e.g. stability of Zostera marina subjected to shading. The main work was carried out in the field and ranged temporally from weeklong to 3.5 months-lon ...
... identity affect ecosystem functioning in terms of processes such as primary production, nutrient availability, epifaunal colonization and properties e.g. stability of Zostera marina subjected to shading. The main work was carried out in the field and ranged temporally from weeklong to 3.5 months-lon ...
A Survey and Overview of Habitat Fragmentation Experiments
... Following from the theory of island biogeography (MacArthur & Wilson 1967), species richness in habitat fragments is expected to be a function of island size and degree of isolation. Smaller, more isolated fragments are expected to retain fewer species than larger, less isolated habitat tracts (Diam ...
... Following from the theory of island biogeography (MacArthur & Wilson 1967), species richness in habitat fragments is expected to be a function of island size and degree of isolation. Smaller, more isolated fragments are expected to retain fewer species than larger, less isolated habitat tracts (Diam ...
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... on the underlying facts, the conceptual understanding of terms such as “nature” and “wilderness”, how we perceive and valuate nature in a human-dominated world and, not the least, what would be the relevant goals and best options for conservation biology [5–13]. A relevant issue for this discourse o ...
... on the underlying facts, the conceptual understanding of terms such as “nature” and “wilderness”, how we perceive and valuate nature in a human-dominated world and, not the least, what would be the relevant goals and best options for conservation biology [5–13]. A relevant issue for this discourse o ...
Life in the Aftermath of Mass Extinctions
... features were preserved in rocks that had not occurred since abundant metazoans fully colonized the soft sediments of the seafloor [55]. These features, and other anachronistic structures [56], are important because they imply that certain ecological strategies were so rare (or even absent) that the ...
... features were preserved in rocks that had not occurred since abundant metazoans fully colonized the soft sediments of the seafloor [55]. These features, and other anachronistic structures [56], are important because they imply that certain ecological strategies were so rare (or even absent) that the ...
Colonization in metapopulations: a review of
... stochasticity) a good colonizer should have a high ratio of natality to mortality, best achieved through low mortality. Otherwise, a high and invariable r is advantageous, unless the bad times can be averaged out with a low rate of mortality. The ratio Alp has no dimension, whereas r is expressed pe ...
... stochasticity) a good colonizer should have a high ratio of natality to mortality, best achieved through low mortality. Otherwise, a high and invariable r is advantageous, unless the bad times can be averaged out with a low rate of mortality. The ratio Alp has no dimension, whereas r is expressed pe ...
Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal
... ecosystem dynamics over multiple generations of individual species. These dynamics often occur over decades, centuries or millennia, particularly when long-lived organisms, for example trees, clonal shrubs and large vertebrates are the dominant components of the ecological community. Although long-t ...
... ecosystem dynamics over multiple generations of individual species. These dynamics often occur over decades, centuries or millennia, particularly when long-lived organisms, for example trees, clonal shrubs and large vertebrates are the dominant components of the ecological community. Although long-t ...
Monitoring data from citizen-science programs
... mammal species remain poorly understood, however. The patterns discussed here apply to most, but not necessarily all, of the species mentioned. What is known about the few well-studied species suggests that burrowing mammals likely play widespread and important ecological roles, and that their loss ...
... mammal species remain poorly understood, however. The patterns discussed here apply to most, but not necessarily all, of the species mentioned. What is known about the few well-studied species suggests that burrowing mammals likely play widespread and important ecological roles, and that their loss ...
Chapter 12 Natural Environment The State of Our Biodiversity
... and therefore linked to the biodiversity of a region. Ecosystem services can be ...
... and therefore linked to the biodiversity of a region. Ecosystem services can be ...
Current Status, Distribution, and Conservation of the Burrowing Owl
... North America and 0.5 percent/year in the US (table 1). For both North America and the US, however, the trends from 1966-1979 were a 1.6 percent and 1.8 percent increase in numbers and the trend from 1980-1994 was a 2.1 percent and 2.0 percent increase in numbers, respectively. In the Central Region ...
... North America and 0.5 percent/year in the US (table 1). For both North America and the US, however, the trends from 1966-1979 were a 1.6 percent and 1.8 percent increase in numbers and the trend from 1980-1994 was a 2.1 percent and 2.0 percent increase in numbers, respectively. In the Central Region ...
Perth 2015 - Australasian Wildlife Management Society
... Welcome... from the President Welcome to the 2015 AWMS conference. It is the 28th consecutive year that AWMS has met to discuss the issues and practice of wildlife management in Australia. As AWMS has grown and matured, so too has the praxis of wildlife management in our region and AWMS can be justi ...
... Welcome... from the President Welcome to the 2015 AWMS conference. It is the 28th consecutive year that AWMS has met to discuss the issues and practice of wildlife management in Australia. As AWMS has grown and matured, so too has the praxis of wildlife management in our region and AWMS can be justi ...
conservation action plan for the russian far east ecoregion complex
... collaborates with international conservation ...
... collaborates with international conservation ...
Forum Declaration
... APPRECIATE the historic contributions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Polar Bear Specialist Group, and WELCOME their continued role as scientific adviser to the parties of the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears; FURTHER RECOGNIZE the need for the IUCN Pola ...
... APPRECIATE the historic contributions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Polar Bear Specialist Group, and WELCOME their continued role as scientific adviser to the parties of the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears; FURTHER RECOGNIZE the need for the IUCN Pola ...
Awareness material for the mangroves in Egypt
... mucronata branch off (diverge) from the trunk as much as 2 m above the soil, elongate at up to 1cm per day, and penetrate the soil some distance away from the main stem. As much as 25% of the aboveground phytomass of the tree may consist of aerial roots. Beside their normal function, they provide th ...
... mucronata branch off (diverge) from the trunk as much as 2 m above the soil, elongate at up to 1cm per day, and penetrate the soil some distance away from the main stem. As much as 25% of the aboveground phytomass of the tree may consist of aerial roots. Beside their normal function, they provide th ...
here - Caroni Swamp RDI
... forest in Trinidad and Tobago (Juman and Ramsewak, 2011 and White, 2008). Covering an area of approximately 6,125 ha the Swamp consists of about 60% of the island’s mangrove. ...
... forest in Trinidad and Tobago (Juman and Ramsewak, 2011 and White, 2008). Covering an area of approximately 6,125 ha the Swamp consists of about 60% of the island’s mangrove. ...
Appendix E - Biodiversity Offsets Strategy
... species, the management measures that are proposed for these species (e.g. progressive rehabilitation) are proven to be effective at the existing mine for these species. The project is therefore not predicted to have a significant residual impact on these species, as defined by the Significant Impac ...
... species, the management measures that are proposed for these species (e.g. progressive rehabilitation) are proven to be effective at the existing mine for these species. The project is therefore not predicted to have a significant residual impact on these species, as defined by the Significant Impac ...
Author`s personal copy
... among the biodiversity hotspots is probably largely due to the fact that Mittermeier et al. (2011) focused on natural habitats, while grasslands in most parts of Europe are semi-natural, meaning that they have emerged through centuries or millennia of low-intensity human land use from forests as pot ...
... among the biodiversity hotspots is probably largely due to the fact that Mittermeier et al. (2011) focused on natural habitats, while grasslands in most parts of Europe are semi-natural, meaning that they have emerged through centuries or millennia of low-intensity human land use from forests as pot ...
Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems
... scales, may influence the functioning of seagrass ecosystems, based on the few explicit experimental tests of such relationships and on inferences from other lines of evidence. I close with thoughts on how this research might inform our response to mitigating worldwide seagrass decline and its conse ...
... scales, may influence the functioning of seagrass ecosystems, based on the few explicit experimental tests of such relationships and on inferences from other lines of evidence. I close with thoughts on how this research might inform our response to mitigating worldwide seagrass decline and its conse ...
Ecosystems and Their Services - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
... the essential structure, processes, functions and interactions among organisms and their environment. It recognizes that humans, with their cultural diversity, are an integral component of many ecosystems. According to the CBD, the term ecosystem can refer to any functioning unit at any scale. This ...
... the essential structure, processes, functions and interactions among organisms and their environment. It recognizes that humans, with their cultural diversity, are an integral component of many ecosystems. According to the CBD, the term ecosystem can refer to any functioning unit at any scale. This ...
Conservation biology
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Conservation biology is the scientific study of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on natural and social sciences, and the practice of natural resource management.The conservation ethic is based on the findings of conservation biology.