Biodiversity is defined as the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. Back in 1993, the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly decided we needed an International Day for Biological Diversity(IDB)to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues, now...
According to the FAO (2004), agrobiodiversity is defined as “the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries. It comprises the diversity of genetic resources (varieti...
Conservation of biodiversityis considered as key component for administration of natural assets. Biodiversity is an all-encompassing concept that describes the magnitude of ecological diversity. Biodiversity is the wide range of life associated with different types of framework for biodiversity. The warnings...
Biodiversity is usually defined as living diversity of nature and as a component of environment. It involved all form of life, the structural and functional aspects together. Biodiversity is not only the quantity. Therefore, as assessment criteria; richness and its spatial distribution, significant an...
It is self-evident that growth, as currently 14 , has a major negative impact upon biodiversity. What needs to change is the definition of growth from a GDP-essential concept to a balance-sheet 15 . Organizations and world community should work on creating new vision or reform that will hel...
Our study targets to compare models of species diversity and ecosystem functions using combinations of environmental predictors grouped within climate, habitat, and soil variables with models using a single geodiversity compound index which is defined as the summed spatial diversity of the same selected...
Foodandcoverresourcesarelimitedformanyspeciesofwildlifeinfragmentedlandscapes(left)ascomparedtounfragmentedlandscapes(right).Habitatfragmentationistheseperationofalandscapeintovariouslanduses(e.g,development,agriculture,etc.),resultinginnumeroussmall,disjunct分离的habitatpatches小块栖息地leftforusebywildlife.11 生境破碎...
"Man is an integral part of nature"; "Dao follows the laws of nature"; and "All beings are equal". China, as one of the first countries to sign and approve the Convention on Biological Diversity, has always attached great importance to biodiversity conservation and preserves biodiversity with...
Here, we introduce a framework for an integrated biodiversity indicator that takes into consideration the estimated relative importance of multiple pressures. The indicator is defined as a function of the pressure(s) and is parameterized to explain a number of individual states of biodiversity. We ...
Biodiversity: Variety is the spice of life 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 24 摘要: Discusses the importance of biodiversity. As many as 30 million different species inhabit the Earth; Human activity threatens biodiversity; Why we should worry; Manipulating life; Sharing the treasure. INSET: Agenda ...