Pesticides allow farmers to grow more food, but they're a danger to beneficial insects(益虫).“This is a huge moment for nature." said Brian O'Donnell, director of an environmental group. But dealing with biodiversity loss is very much like fighting climate change. It doesn't depend on ...
However, many of our animal and plant friends may not be around for much longer. According to a recent report on biodiversity, 1 million of Earth's 8 million species(物种) are in danger of extinction(灭绝). Humans are mainly responsible for the danger. According to the report, the world...
China makes great efforts to protect biodiversity 从高科技到国家公园,多管齐下,中国保护生物多样性 ● High tech helps China is using cool technologies to watch over animals. For example, in the Yellow River Delta National Na...
There is little agreement among scientists about the definition of the word "species." However, most biologists would agree that a species is a detectable, naturally occurring group of individuals or populations that is on an evolutionary path independent from other such groups. Several more ...
Biodiversity has a vital role to play in the evolution(演变)of species. Species become extinct, but new species evolve, and this is how a balance is maintained. This may sound pretty simple, but it takes millions of years for changes to take place.Biodiversity is also very important to ...
However, many kinds of animals and plants may not be around for much longer.According to a report on biodiversity by the United Nations in May 2019, 1 million of earth's 8 million species are in danger of extinction, including amphibians, ocean mammals and insects.Humans are mainly to be ...
Cupped in your hands may be 5 000 different kinds of creatures--and as many individual cells as there are humans on the globe.It's a whole world of often overlooked biodiversity.Yet with each pass of the bulldozer(推土机) or tractor, each forest fire, and each oil spill, more and more...
Climate change exacerbates biodiversity loss and contributes to disrupting ecosystem functioning, diminishing ecosystem services, and further endangering vulnerable populations of species. This study explores how different climate scenarios may impede the probable resilience of top-priority crop wild relatives ...
Download: Download Word document (1MB) Supplementary material Data availability Data will be made available on request.References Bag et al., 2022 S. Bag, A. Mondal, A. Banik Exploring tea (Camellia sinensis) microbiome: insights into the functional characteristics and their impact on tea growth...
Slightly less instrumental are the sustainability approaches of NCP and PB, as they both refrain from subscribing to the total sepa- ration of human and nature and do contain a recognition of biodiversity and of the overall well-being and survival of the planet or total ecosystem. However, ...