Despite these critical services provided by forest canopies, almost no dedicated research in the treetops was initiated until as recently as the late 1970s when single rope techniques were developed by mountaineering professionals and adapted for use in the canopy. Subsequently, an array of canopy ...
AnAuthor Correctionto this article was published on 24 May 2021 This article has beenupdated Abstract Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework of essential biodiversi...
Overall, our results were robust to the different temperature variables used: long-term annual mean (Mean_Temp) and maximum temperature (Max_Temp) from the databases WorldClim and Bio-ORACLE, and average air and sea surface temperature in the first year sampled from the HadCRUT4 database (...
The paper concludes that though there are many prescriptions to curb environmental deterioration and ecological degradation, the long-term solutions will lie in changing consumption habits, lifestyle goals and value systems. These require an ecological prescription in political thinking, economic activities...
Any assessment and valuation intended to provide a sustainable policy for the medium and long term cannot ignore the ecological system side of the cascade. The existence of the social system is guaranteed by the proper functioning of the ecological system. The value of the ecological system is in...
The term “soil quality” was coined in this context, but more recently the term “soil health” has become common (Chapters 14 and 251425). Soil quality is the ability of a soil to function within its surroundings, support plant and animal productivity, and maintain or enhance water and ...
7 (Xinhua) -- A prestigious Spanish award was given to U.S. ecologist Gene Likens and Dutch scientist Marten Scheffer for their work in helping understand the responses of ecosystems to human-induced alterations of the environment, it was announced Tuesday. Likens and Scheffer was granted the ...
We then presented six common definitions of the term “ecosystem” and asked participants to rank their most and least favorite of these definitions (Box 2). Survey participants were also given an opportunity to propose their own definition. The first part of the survey then ended with the ...
We often did things together, so one day Tina didn’t talk to me and just sat by herself. I don’t know what was wrong. I thought about what I had done and said recent. Was Tina upset because I had done well in the history test than her? No, she was happy that I did well ...
Genetic monitoring of populations currently attracts interest in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity but needs long-term planning and investments. However, genetic diversity has been largely neglected in biodiversity monitoring, and whe