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Improving risk assessment for biodiversity conservation [PDF]

open access: bronzeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
Preservation of biodiversity is a major ecological challenge to present and future generations (1). Success will largely depend on the optimal allocation of limited funding resources to the most relevant conservation projects. In a recent issue of PNAS, Ando and Mallory (2) proposed to tackle the problem with Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), originally ...
Jörn Dunkel, Stefan Weber
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Estimating Deep-Sea Fish Population Density From the Odour Extension Area: A Theoretical Basis and Comparison With the Conventional Methods

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Accurately estimating the population density of deep-sea fish with a baited camera system has long been a significant challenge. Although several theoretical models have been developed using the first arrival time of an individual fish or time-varying ...
Kunihiro Aoki   +2 more
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Biodiversity monitoring, ecological integrity, and the design of the New Zealand Biodiversity Assessment Framework

open access: yesNew Zealand journal of ecology, 2020
The New Zealand Department of Conservation is responsible for biodiversity management over approximately one-third of New Zealand’s land area and a network of marine protected areas; it also has a more general role in managing protected species and ...
M. McGlone   +4 more
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What are the main environmental impacts and products contributing to the biodiversity footprint of EU consumption? A comparison of life cycle impact assessment methods and models

open access: yesThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2023
Purpose Recent developments in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) target at better addressing biodiversity impacts, including the extended modeling of drivers of biodiversity loss. This led to the development of multiple LCIA methods addressing the area
E. Sanyé‐Mengual   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Valuing Biodiversity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Erratum published on 13 March 2020, see Sustainability 2020, 12(6), 2270. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205628In this article, the authors propose an impact assessment method for life cycle assessment (LCA) that adheres to established LCA principles for ...
Bischoff, Mascha   +5 more
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Biodiversity assessments: Origin matters

open access: yesPLOS Biology, 2018
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Laura A. Meyerson   +28 more
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Influence of Chemical Parameters on Artemia sp. (Crustacea: Anostraca) Population in Al Wathba Lake in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE

open access: yesInternational Journal of Aquatic Biology, 2016
Long term monitoring programme on Brine shrimp (Artemia sp.) is being carried out by the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (EAD) with the prime purpose of understanding the population dynamics, ecology and habitat requirements of ...
Anitha Saji   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining “Biodiversity”; Assessing Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yesMonist, 2002
This paper analyzes the concept of biodiversity in conservation biology and assesses potential methods for its measurement.
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Making biodiversity measures accessible to non-specialists: An innovative method for rapid assessment of urban biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Urban biodiversity studies provide important inputs to studying the interactions between human societies and ecological systems. However, existing urban biodiversity methods are time intensive and/or too complex for the purposes of rapid biodiversity ...
James, P, Tzoulas, K
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