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The IIED, based in London, commissioned the research as part of a broader programme to examine the links between biodiversity and poverty.

Another of the reviews highlighted the lack of sound evidence on the extent to which the poor depend on biodiversity.

"In the case of birds, " he said, "lots of extinctions, no change in total biodiversity. "

BIOLOGIST: You only have to look around you here to see just how rich, how wealthy New Zealand is in terms of its biodiversity.

It is known to all that protection of the ecological environment and biodiversity is the focal point of environmental protection work.

"Biodiversity could be a source of new diseases but, once a disease emerges, greater biodiversity is protective, " she said.

The Land of the Thunder Dragon, as it's known, has rugged mountains and valleys, making it a hotspot for biodiversity.

Beyond the biodiversity, the researchers also found a set of certain bacteria that seemed tougher than the rest.

'While very encouraging, these discoveries do not mean that our global biodiversity is out of the woods, ' she said.

With all the protection the EU has in place, it was surprising to see it was a hotspot for biodiversity loss.

The UN reported that a target agreed on by governments to reduce significantly the rate of biodiversity loss had not been met.

If the failure in Copenhagen can act as a wake-up call to the biodiversity community, that itself will have been a positive achievement.

We are always trying to understand things from our perspective, we are not trying to look at how [local communities] perceive biodiversity.

He said the lo of what he called the ocean ' biodiversity hampers the ability of the seas to recover from global warming and pollution.

One of the fundamental questions of biology is the amount and full nature of biodiversity on Earth.

But we do not know whether lower carbon footprints will always be better for biodiversity.

And you know how coral are very sensitive to temperature, and are very important for the biodiversity of the sea.

The absolute importance of biodiversity is only just beginning to be understood.

Field margins are one of the key European agri-environmental measures, and are considered to help maintain biodiversity in farm landscapes.

The first questions whether the raw data about forest cover are a good indicator of biodiversity, at least for big animals.

Energy production is another area with a strong potential for reducing human impacts on climate change while protecting biodiversity.

BIODIVERSITY is not just a matter of tigers and whales, or butterflies and trees, or even coral reefs and tuna.

On natural islands, biodiversity tends to increase with the size of the islands.

One of the major reasons for the sharp decrease of the biodiversity was the intrusive alien species.

As species die, so biodiversity is depleted and with it the ecosystem services that such biodiversity provides.

Biodiversity is also less of an issue for livestock animals that have been bred for millennia to be genetically homogenous.

Well-planned and managed ecotourism has proven to be one of the most effective tools for long-term conservation of biodiversity.

Typical Beijing dishes and snacks can be delicious, but they are less varied than those of the South, with its rich biodiversity.

Indeed, it is possible for cross-pollination to "contaminate" wild varieties of food, decreasing biodiversity.

Since then, a few other teams have found more evidence that the tropics are both a cradle and a museum of biodiversity.

China has abundant biodiversity resources, and possesses the high place in the world biodiversity conservation.

To an ecologist, this looks like an ecosystem whose biodiversity has expanded radically.

It would mandate that users of genetic material from biodiversity are subject to the national law of its origin.

Instead, biodiversity will continue to be promoted as a "cross-cutting theme" alongside gender, it was decided.

For instance, investments in clean, sediment-free water are often the same investments capable of protecting aquatic biodiversity.

The census is an international effort currently involved in a decadelong study of ocean biodiversity.

People depend on biodiversity in their daily lives, in ways that are not always apparent or appreciated.

the size of the industry and its rate of growth present both opportunities and threats for biodiversity conservation.

In terms of biodiversity, though, and often of carbon storage as well, they are at best inferior replacements.

There is no clear guideline in Qinling Mountains for eco-tourism development in terms of biodiversity conservation sensitivity.

Biodiversity must be preserved at all costs and measures should be taken to ensure more species from becoming extinct.

The lake's biodiversity has adapted to cold, long winters, but its waters have been warming over the last several decades.

The new study found that Bt cotton, also known as transgenic cotton, does not affect the biodiversity of insects in cotton fields.

We haven't had a serious environmental debate, and scarcely . . . a mention of conservation of biodiversity around the world, ever.

From an economic perspective, much more work needs to be done to put a fair and meaningful valuation on biodiversity.

Crop experts have recommended a host of measures to help tackle plummeting biodiversity and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.

The biggest financial institutes like the World Bank . . . say that biodiversity is non-renewable biomass.

To date, the theory of evolution is the only robust and established scientific theory regarding the biodiversity on Earth.

It had minimal effect on biodiversity, and any pollution it caused was typically localized.

And a local NGO is attempting to save the drought-affected biodiversity of Australian wetlands by using a network of irrigation channels.

The country is reviewing its protected areas to see which are really important for biodiversity, says Ms Mundita Lim.

He becomes a theorist of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and biogeography, and one of the patron saints of conservation science.

Now ecologists have assessed the earthquake's impact on biodiversity and the habitat for some of the last existing wild giant pandas.

The biodiversity showed that there was a declining trend with the increase of rubber forest's age.

The organization Biodiversity International reports losses of up to 80% in heavily affected areas of the country.

You know saving the rainforest is good for biodiversity.

It concluded that the shrubby vegetation was the keystone for the biodiversity conservation in the region.

We keep our office almost like an archive of architectural biodiversity .

Just as efforts to preserve biodiversity increase, economics encourages farmers to focus on fewer crops.

Its research include Biological Oceanography, Biogeochemical cycling, Biotechnology, Archaeology, Biodiversity, and Pollution etc.

The biodiversity of New York today is the result of extinctions, invasions and adaptations.

Hopefully, the adoption by CBD member countries of a 2010 target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss will improve things.

We proposed biodiversity contribution which combines the diversity and distinctiveness, to evaluate diversity extent of a unit.

Minshan Mountain is one of the biodiversity protection hotspots on the globe. There are the biggest giant panda population of the world.

Take the case of retail and commercial banking , where there remains considerable " biodiversity " .

Another paper calls for international conventions on biodiversity, desertification and climate change to be brought into line.

In recent years, "environmental protection" and "biodiversity" have become signal words for governments and scholars around the world.

Protecting and harnessing the power of soil biodiversity is one of the most important benefits of conservation agriculture.

If we falter, the tigers' loss would be a dramatic indication of our failure to safeguard biodiversity and balanced development.

First, human health cannot be separated from the health of our total planetary biodiversity.

Biodiversity must be preserved at all costs and measures taken to ensure more species don't become extinct.

The single factor qualitative graduation evaluation method was used in the biodiversity conservation importance appraisal.

In terms of biodiversity, the Mekong River is second only to the Amazon among the world's great rivers.

Application and management of the edge effects, as well as the protection of biodiversity are important and urgent.

"Recovery of biodiversity will not occur on any timeframe meaningful to people, " said the study.

The biggest threat to all this biodiversity is probably peace.

Coral reefs, which have evolved over 400m years, are the biggest living structures on Earth and the richest in terms of marine biodiversity.

Just as climate change alters the state of biodiversity, so changes in biodiversity can also affect the world's climate.

Crop germplasm resources are a key component of biodiversity, and can serve as a material basis for crop breeding and agro production.

Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs.

It has a vital significance in improving the wetland water environment, preserving the wetland biodiversity, and maintaining the vell. . .

The invasion of these alien harmful plants will affect gravely on Nanyue biodiversity and ecosystem' s stability.

China is one of the countries with richest biodiversity in the world and also has abundant hunting animal resources.

Let us look into the eyes of our children and admit that we continue to lose biodiversity at unprecedented rates.

Biodiversity is one of the ways to measure the health of an eco-system.

The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.

Beyond aesthetic appeal, choices involve thermal control, stormwater management, externality mitigation, and biodiversity.

It was really an extraordinary landscape that was capable of supporting an extraordinary biodiversity.

Nevertheless, this part of the experiment suggests it is weight that determines gut biodiversity, not the other way round.

Landscape fragmentation and habitat loss are widely recognized as the major threats to the biodiversity decrease and species extinction.

They cover a wide range of disciplines including nanotechnology, bioscience, biodiversity, marine sciences and earth sciences.

When coupled with these increasing human activities, natural disasters create unprecedented challenges for biodiversity conservation.

The overexploitation of land for agricultural gain can have long-term negative effects on the biodiversity of a region.

The move will protect biodiversity in the region and help thousands of indigenous people maintain sustainable livelihoods.

Other subjects include biodiversity (the whole range of plants and animals in an area), conservation biology, and ecology.

Cliffs are one of the relictual and least disturbed habitats which act as refuges for biodiversity.

Some scientists are now listing the invasive lionfish species among the top 15 threats to global biodiversity.

Although small in size, these little animals are part of our biodiversity which forms the basic foundation of healthy ecosystems.

So just what's going to happen when so much biodiversity disappears has become a pressing question.

At present, biodiversity of the world has been menaced. Biological invasion has been one of the factors threatening biodiversity.

The equivalent to the Stern report for biodiversity is called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB).

Some think the notion is an affront to those who place cultural, spiritual or aesthetic value on biodiversity for its own sake.

Scope for "speciation" , sustaining biodiversity through the creation of wholly new "species" of financial institutions.

From the perspective of biodiversity, these ugly dams need to be dismantled and the natural features of the watercourse need to be revived.

A rich variety of cultivated plants and domesticated animals are the foundation for agricultural biodiversity.

Another charts the same areas and threats for biodiversity, and a third map combines the two surveys.

Human activity has caused profound changes to the climate, biodiversity, oceanic acidity and greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere.

Features a collection of conservation databases including species, protected areas, forest, marine and national biodiversity profiles.

and former director, National Programme for Biodiversity Conservation, ministry of the environment, Brazil.

This raises concerns about the long-term survival of coral reefs, which are refuges for marine biodiversity.

Thus, our results suggest that islands of all sizes need to be considered for biodiversity conservation in the Thousand Island Lake region.

However, reports Feng Yongfeng , the tropical island's biodiversity is still under threat.

The failure to halt biodiversity loss does not reflect a lack of commitment by the scientific community.

The traditional explanation for patterns of marine biodiversity is known as Rapoport's rule.

Forests are being destroyed at the rate of an acre a second, with unimaginable loss of biodiversity.

Meanwhile there is growing support for the creation of a new international body that would "champion" biodiversity.

Melott links the changes in biodiversity to the motion of the sun and planets through our galaxy.

Plant germplasm resources for the preservation of biodiversity conservation and plant biotechnology are of great significance [2].

One definition of biodiversity is the differences of life at all levels of biological organization.

A fascinating issue for ecologists is to develop a general theory exploring the mechanisms of formation and stabilization of biodiversity.

But a United Nations report has little good to say about the health of biodiversity in the world.

Environmental damage threatens our food supplies, the air we breathe, and the rich biodiversity that sustains the balance of life.

Microorganisms are an important group of organism mainly performing catabolic metabolism, which display extreme abundance in biodiversity.

And that limited biodiversity has been threatened in recent years by hurricanes, disease, pollution, climate change and overfishing.

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If biodiversity can be promoted in a city's crazy quilt of greenery, the areas could add up, Goddard says.

In Yunnan these rivers and their valleys form one of the world's most remarkable hotspots of biodiversity.

Evaluation of regional species diversity is an important component in studying global biodiversity.

Significant medical and pharmacological discoveries are made through greater understanding of the earth's biodiversity.

They need to start now in terms of integrating that biodiversity back into some commercially viable products.

It has rich species abundance. It is necessary to conserve the biodiversity for sustainable development of this scenic areas.

Countries have agreed a roadmap for negotiating an agreement for the sharing of genetic resources, following a UN biodiversity conference.

The biodiversity of the net- phytoplankton community decreases with the increase of logarithm of the cell abundance value.

Such risks make it important to take biodiversity issues into account when formulating policies on alternative energy sources.

Participants hope to reach a global agreement on ABS at the next UN biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010.

We've boosted food production by applying more chemicals, clearing more land, using more water and reducing biodiversity.

Each January she brings together teams of scientists and American and Equatorial Guinean students for comprehensive biodiversity surveys.

Biodiversity The number and variety of organisms in a given locality, community, or ecosystem.

Third and last, endangered animals are an important part of the biodiversity of our planet.

Climate change cannot be solved without action on biodiversity, and vice versa.

Research on Biodiversity Characteristics and Its Variation Law in Longitudinal Range- Goreg Region of Southwest Yunnan Province .

The ex situ conservation of endangered animals is an important part of conservation of biodiversity.

But scientists who study the impact of global warming on biodiversity are pushing back against the pressure for detailed forecasts.

Establishing nature reserves is one of the most important approaches for in situ biodiversity conservation.

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY: WHY IS THERE A DISCREPANCY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS?

Our reforestation programs have helped increase biodiversity and maintain the natural equilibrium of the area.

In October, the 193 countries that have signed the Convention will set new biodiversity reduction targets at a conference in Nagoya, Japan.

To enhance students understanding of the basic concepts of biodiversity through this learning experience.

The theme of this year's International Day for Biological Diversity is "biodiversity and climate change" .

That biodiversity is threatened as the dam floods some habitats, reduces water flow to others, and alters weather patterns.

It indicated that the snow disaster brought a destructive impact on the Pieridae biodiversity in Nanling National Nature Reserve.

With the global focuses on biodiversity and sustainable developments, the needs for biosystematics are becoming bigger and bigger.

An over-exploitation of the soil for agricultural gain can have long term, negative impacts on the biodiversity of the region.

The slight edge-effects in the upper part of the water shed indicate favorable habitat and high biodiversity.

Influential factors of plantation on biodiversity were analyzed and the enhanced approaches of biodiversity in plantation were recommended.

Healthy local diets, with adequate average levels of nutrients intake, necessitates maintenance of high biodiversity levels.

Worede wanted to prove that deciding between having enough to eat today and preserving food biodiversity for tomorrow is a false choice.

Marine biodiversity protection involves cross-border issues that require international cooperation to solve them.

A rise in sea levels and extensive losses in biodiversity are just two of a range of likely impacts.

Here, all this food comes off this farm, and at the end of the season there is actually more soil, more fertility and more biodiversity.

Habitat fragmentation poses a wide spread threat to biodiversity by disrupting seed production and dispersal.

But harvesting costs are high and land sources are geographically scattered and may be home to important biodiversity.

Ms. Lai: Our parks are learning and living classrooms, a window of hope to protect the biodiversity of our home and our planet.

In each case they found that the maladies have become more prevalent during the time in which local biodiversity shrank.

Conclusion Tremendous biodiversity of Calyptratae was found in Daxiangling region warranting further study.

Poor water quality in Great Barrier Reef suffered a loss in coral biodiversity and an increase in seaweed cover.

Alien invasive species can cause huge economic loss in agricultural and forestry production, and threaten biodiversity and human health.

Spatial patterns of biodiversity are results of contemporary climate, disturbance, and geological history.

It affects water flow, electricity generation, transport, water quality and indigenous biodiversity.

So we may have been thinking backwards - it's not that the tropics have greater biodiversity.

Another underwater experiment supports the notion that biodiversity provides stability.

The panel is called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES.

Similarly, biodiversity conservation should be factored in to the design and location of wind turbines.

World Bank launches global partnership at biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan, to pilot "green accounting" in six to eight countries.

The paper introduced a new method for comparing the biodiversity among communities: community intrinsic diversity ordering.

But unfortunately, much of Africa's biodiversity remains unexploited for health and economic benefits.

Key Protected Wild Plants List plays an important role in forestry enforcement, science research and biodiversity conservation.

The sector also threatens "enormous pressure on ecosystems, biodiversity, land and forest resources and water quality" .

Changes in how the land is used are probably the principal contributor to the current decline in biodiversity.

Reversing the downward spiral of biodiversity will take more than protecting wild places, but that's where scientists are starting.

The area, located in the Papua province of the island of New Guinea, has long been known for its rich biodiversity.

They stressed that biodiversity conservation and integrated river basin management are fruitful areas for co-operation.

Ourcountry is one of biodiversity richest countries in the world, containing the rich wild animal resources.

The importance of agricultural biodiversity is not yet sufficiently recognised and that [having a programme] would have been an opportunity.

If biodiversity conservation is difficult enough in good times, Hedemark told me, he worries what hard economic times will mean.

Biodiversity faces many threats all over the world.

The scheme could yield enormous economic benefits and aid biodiversity conservation, but it is hampered by bureaucratic hurdles.

Since artificial soil technology has so many usages, the problem of protection of the biodiversity can be tackled by it.

The higher level of industrialization and agricultural intensification will result in a lower weed biodiversity.

Forest resources play a vital role in climatic change alleviation, biodiversity maintenance and water source self-control.

Adverse macroeconomic conditions reduce the survival chances of businesses in the same way that bad weather limits biodiversity.

Brazil fears that foreign researchers could exploit its biodiversity without paying the country a fair share of the profits.

Advancing conservation of biodiversity, or enhancing the prospects for survival of threatened species.

He focuses on river basin biodiversity and local livelihoods throughout the Greater Himalaya.

In the protection of biodiversity and research on important species of flora and fauna resources for transplant and exclusive research.

Biodiversity is not fungible, as carbon is: its value is more like that of real estate than that of a commodity.

Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us, is in peril.

She and others studying climate's effects on biodiversity are calling for conservation measures that don't rely on impossible precision.

If we were then to add the viruses, the total biodiversity on Earth would soar yet again.

Secondly, biodiversity is the material base of ecosystem for its ability in resisting disturbances and in adapting to environmental changes.

That includedentire families, suggesting that the increased temperatures and carbon dioxidelevels actually boosted biodiversity.

At the time, more than one hundred ninety countries agreed to reduce or halt biodiversity losses by twenty ten.

The United States government needs to sign a convention on biodiversity.

December: MA Biodiversity Synthesis Team London, United Kingdom (Zoological Society of London).

A second question relates to the joint governance of biodiversity and climate change issues.

Too much media coverage of biodiversity fails to connect with the issues directly affecting people's lives.

It is a widespread problem in Eucalyptus plantations that the plant community is simple in structure and low in biodiversity status.

He said this is a welcome message in 2010 - the International Year of Biodiversity. However, Mr.

Among other things , he explains, they are biodiversity hot spots in the West, home to a variety of songbirds.

Nowadays, remote sensing technique has become the main method for monitoring biodiversity on regional and global scale.

The greatest threats are losses of soil quality, biodiversity and water resources.

The origins and maintenance of species diversity is a core of biodiversity. Numerous hypotheses address this topic.

Understanding species coexistence and the maintenance of biodiversity has long been the central interest of ecologists.

Ensure biodiversity of garden soil by practicing crop rotation, cover-cropping and no-till gardening.

We tested the Dai peoples plant identification ability by using Rapid Biodiversity Inventory, quadrat method, and folk interviews.

Herein, we analyze and compare this new hypothesis to other related hypotheses of metabolism-biodiversity theory.

Objective To investigate the biodiversity and fauna of Tachinidae in Songshan National Nature Reserve of Beijing.

Restoration of biodiversity, in contrast, increased productivity fourfold and decreased variability by 21%, on average.

Humanity has not known from where the biodiversity benefit.

The results showed that mixed forest had a higher biodiversity than pure forest .

The program helps protect biodiversity and sustain communities and businesses in the sensitive Mekong River basin.

Scientists have found that the reefs not only harbour amazing biodiversity, but are actively involved in the generation of new life forms.

"We've put in place a number of measures to ensure that ecosystems and biodiversity are maintained, " says Smith.

The recovery from mass extinction touches on current concerns about biodiversity and conservation.

Already, three-quarters of biodiversity in crops has been lost in the last century, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

If the tropics are indeed the "engine" of biodiversity, with more species evolving here than anywhere else, why could this be?

More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity.

Zoellick said biodiversity's survival depended on creating a broader coalition in its defense.

The pressures on the countries richest in biodiversity have not diminished, and many regions still remain unexplored.

Scientists from Sri Lanka and Germany have developed a new method to measure biodiversity, and say it could help identify key tree species.

World Bank support over the last 20 years for biodiversity conservation totaled more than $6 billion in more than 120 countries.

MEXICO CITY - Wild cotton in Mexico has been contaminated with genetically modified material, posing a risk to biodiversity, experts say.

The Sichuan region is designated as a global hotspot for biodiversity, according to Conservation International.

Split into three three-year phases the Korean biodiversity initiative started in 2006 and is slated to run until 2014.

besides , more native tree species were employed during tree planting schemes to enhance biodiversity.

The number of China's rice varieties has dramatically decreased, raising fears about the country's food security and biodiversity.

Given the appeal and ecological role of tigers, their effective conservation can provide an umbrella for all biodiversity.

Our landscapes, crops, biodiversity and even potential for medical research into human diseases could be changed for ever.

We also discuss important issues relevant to further advancing the area of metabolism-biodiversity theory.

But fast-growing, single species forests threaten wildlife and imperil the country's biodiversity, writes Feng Yongfeng.

The vegetation and the biodiversity index of shade slops and south-facing slopes all showed the tendency of increasing with elevation.

The biodiversity of wetland and its prevention measures in Min River Estuary.

And so far, in the case of biodiversity, efforts have largely failed.

In November, industry officials will meet to discuss voluntary schemes to minimise biodiversity loss.

Can you recommend donors who may be interested in financing a hotspot-wide biodiversity monitoring program?

Biodiversity of microbe populations is the strongest indicator of soil health and productivity.

The ecological fragility of the Three-Gorges Reservoir Region makes it of particular significance to conserve biodiversity in the region.

There remain many unanswered questions about the relationship between biodiversity and climate change.

Create green river corridor and the protection of biodiversity is part of the West Zuo'er Green River ecosystem planning principles.

Invasive species can decrease biodiversity and drive resident species to the brink of extinction.