Biodiversity and Ecosystems
From genes to ecosystems: patterns, processes and consequences of declining biodiversity in coral reef fish communities
... of biodiversity include species origin, sea-level changes in the Pleistocene, isolation, gene flow and area and population ...of biodiversity, since cryptic species may be a more common occurrence than ...
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From genes to ecosystems: patterns, processes and consequences of declining biodiversity in coral reef fish communities
... in biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges of the 21 st ...century. Biodiversity is being lost at every hierarchical level of biological organisation, from ecosystems to communities to species ...
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Species and Ecosystems Stages of Biodiversity Evaluation Using Remotely-Sensed Data
... The minimum and maximum values for NDVI are correspondingly applied to each image with the emphasis on the vegetation range of [±0.08;±0.35] as per results presented in Table 3. Each image with its own min and max values ...
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Advancing science on the multiple connections between biodiversity, ecosystems and people
... I feel a bit sad leaving the Journal at this quite exciting point in time, with IPBES really taking off, more than 40 years after Westman introduced the term ‘ Nature ’ s Services’ (Westman 1977). In fact, my first ...
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Assessment and Inventory of Forest Ecosystems Biodiversity: Case Study for Karelian Isthmus of Leningrad Region, Russia
... natural ecosystems [1]. Forest ecosystems are known for sheltering the greatest biodiversity by comparison with many other ecosystems located in the same climatic ...conserving ...
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Biodiversity Assessment of Corals Species Present in Mangrove Ecosystems of Silo-Siloan Islet, Clarin, Bohol
... This study governs the population status of corals in Silo-siloan Islet. The main focused of the study were identifying species composition, abundance and diversity of coral species. The sampling was done by sight- ...
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Divergent biodiversity change within ecosystems
... world’s biodiversity (1) highlights the need for a better understanding of biodiversity ...of ecosystems, for example from primary forest to pastureland, markedly reduces the types and numbers of ...
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Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the European Union
... Thematic groups ranked a similar number of species as very high, high or medium priority for risk assessment, with the excep- tion of the terrestrial invertebrate group which listed fewer spe- cies than the others. For ...
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Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well being
... The winners and losers arising from the redistributions of species will re-shape patterns of human well-being among regions and sectors of industry and communities (61). Those regions with strongest climate drivers, with ...
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Contributions of the private sector to global biodiversity protection: case study of the fortune 500 companies
... of biodiversity and ecosystems in the context of sustainable business and development, growing number of literatures are now getting published in this ...between biodiversity and business in terms of ...
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Age of grassy strips influences biodiversity of ground beetles in organic agro ecosystems
... While analysing the effect of age of grassy strips, the control field used was a 0-year-old strip, since strips are usually ploughed after 2 years and established at another place. The effects of age and distance were ...
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Predictability, scale, and biodiversity in coastal and estuarine ecosystems: implications for management
... Unlike forests, estuaries and other aquatic ecosystems contain relatively low levels of standing biomass. Hence, the time required to regenerate any losses in ecological structure is r[r] ...
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Ground vegetation as an important factor in the biodiversity of forest ecosystems and its evaluation in regard to nitrogen deposition
... ditions, geological substrate, climate, the life cycles of plants, the reserves of diasporas in the environ- ment, etc. The effects of atmospheric deposition, particularly of sulphur and nitrogen, on vegeta- tion and on ...
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Organic farms as refuges for small mammal biodiversity in agro ecosystems
... We found a general correlation between the number of small mammal individuals and small biotope size. This correlation applies in autumn as well as in spring. There is only a weak tendency for more small mammals in small ...
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Biodiversity of Bacillus thuringiensis Strains and Their Cry Genes in Ecosystems of Kyrgyzstan
... As results have shown B. thuringiensis seems to be indigenous to many envi- ronments, its strains have been isolated from many habitats, including soil, litter, insect bodies and slugs, collected from different ...
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Convention on biological diversity and rural-urban connections with reference to Kenya
... The 21 st Century has seen major negative changes in biodiversity and ecosystems whereby ecosystem services have decreased and biodiversity, declining. In many places, the rate of species extinction ...
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Net Environmental Benefit in Urban Centres
... urban ecosystems to biodiversity goals (Clarkson and Kirby, 2016) extends observations that incorporating ‘working environments’ (that is, economically developed landscapes not in the conservation estate) ...
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Features of Quasi-Natural Ecosystems and Their Role in the Conservation of Biodiversity
... quasi-natural ecosystems are included in the list of especially important territories for conservation of birds ...high biodiversity and stabilize the ecological regime of small-scale island-like ...
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Socio-ecological drivers of fish biomass on coral reefs: the importance of accessibility, protection and key species
... The global network of roads is rapidly expanding under multiple needs of accessibility to resources, industries, and infrastructures. Most of the 25 million kilometers of new roads anticipated by 2050 will be built in ...
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A Global Forum on Ultramafic Ecosystems: From Ultramafic Ecology to Rehabilitation of Degraded Environments
... The ninth International Conference on Serpentine Ecology (ICSE) was held in Albania from June 5 to 9, 2017. Albania has > 11% of its surface area consists of ultramafic bedrock or quaternary sediments of ultra- mafic ...
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