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Showing 1 to 20 of 1954 for “"biodiversity"”.
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Biodiversity Assessment: moving towards an evidence-based index for biodiversity offsetting
Biodiversity offsetting is a mechanism for providing physical compensation to redress losses to species and habitats caused by development projects. As offsetting becomes more widespread, so has the evolution and development of frameworks, tools and methodological approaches for assessing …
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Valuation methods of biodiversity
As public concern over the state of biodiversity has increased, demands for incorporating biodiversity and its value into already existing notions of capital and decision-making can be expected to rise as well. Since there are no markets for the state of biodiversity, non-market valuation methods …
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Managing Fire Mosaics for Biodiversity
… wildfire activity have the potential to reduce biodiversity by reducing stand-age heterogeneity of the boreal patch mosaic. This thesis explores the link between spatiotemporal elements of wildfire and biodiversity in the Canadian boreal forest and the suitability of different theoretical …
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Learning Prerequisites for Biodiversity Education
Zusammenfassung Zahlreiche internationale rechtliche Bestimmungen zum Schutz der Biodiversität betonen den zentralen Stellenwert von Bildung (z.B. Konvention über die biologische Vielfalt (CBD), Art. 13a). An sogenannten Biodiversitäts-Hotspots, an denen die Biodiversität besonders gefährdet ist, …
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HONEY BEES, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
… breeding strategies in apiculture. Maintaining biodiversity at both genetic and microbial levels is crucial not only for honey bee survival, but also for securing ecosystem services and agricultural productivity in the context of global environmental change.
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Biodiversity and Biogeography of Amphipod Crustaceans
… dissertation presents aspects of the taxonomy, biodiversity, and biogeography of amphipod crustaceans and is an attempt to address the significant knowledge gaps in the absence of global assessments of the diversity and biogeography of amphipods and put a regional-scale study in Indonesia into a …
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The Impacts of Corvids on Biodiversity
… predators with potential negative impacts on biodiversity. Despite the plethora of literature focusing on the impact of corvids on their potential prey, no review has been conducted on the genus Corvus to synthesis these relationships, and to explore their likely impacts on biodiversity. This …
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Spatial urban and peri-urban biodiversity patterns
… of land use change, habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. However, urban areas should not be considered as “ecological deserts”. Instead, they have the potential to support diverse communities, on condition that suitable habitat patches occur. To reach adequate management decisions and …
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… response decisions affecting indigenous biodiversity. The key elements of the DSS are a synthesis of three components of non-market valuation: choice modelling, a systematic database of values and benefit transfer, with risk simulation to account for uncertainty. The innovative framework …
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Factors Affecting Phytoplankton Biodiversity and Toxin Production
… reports a survey of water quality, algal biodiversity, and toxin production in Southern California lakes, ponds, bays, and lagoons along the California coastline, in five counties from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Samples were analyzed for pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved …
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Biodiversity and agro-ecology in field margins
… agriculture from the 1950’s on. In reaction to biodiversity loss, EU policy pursuited the ecologisation and multifunctionality of agriculture. Field margins do pioneering work in the ecologisation of agriculture since they are the interface between intensive farming practices and the wider …
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Urban trees and biodiversity in Cork city
Biodiversity is poorly quantified in urban landscapes and is not effectively incorporated into urban planning and policymaking. Land-use change (e.g., urbanisation) is one of the key drivers of biodiversity loss. Furthermore, urbanisation is expected to increase from 50 to 70% by 2050. The CSO …
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Representative Biodiversity: The Ecosystem of Cartoon Network
<p>As a capitalist organism the television program, as explained by Todd Gitlin, uses its slant to sell itself to advertisers with similar leanings on contemporary social issues to maintain its flow of revenue. However, this concept of slant does not account for the broader network, which, like the …
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The evolution of biodiversity : a simulation approach
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Biodiversity and Business: who will save whom?
… described as the “sister crisis” of climate: biodiversity. This thesis explores how business and biodiversity are interdependent and can sustain each other. First, it establishes that biodiversity will save business. As a matter of fact, biodiversity provides the necessary conditions for …
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