Valuing changes in forest biodiversity [PDF]
Ecological Economics, 2009 The paper attempts to improve current understanding of the economic value of biodiversity. Instead of the prevailing approach of using only one indicator of biodiversity (typically, species richness) we provide evidence that it is possible to value changes in a number of attributes which describe complex characteristics of biodiversity, based on ...
Czajkowski, Mikolaj +2 more
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A suite of essential biodiversity variables for detecting critical biodiversity change [PDF]
Biological Reviews, 2017 ABSTRACTKey global indicators of biodiversity decline, such as the IUCN Red List Index and the Living Planet Index, have relatively long assessment intervals. This means they, due to their inherent structure, function as late‐warning indicators that are retrospective, rather than prospective.
Schmeller, Dirk +14 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 Transcriptomic and molecular analyses on Hymenoptera facilitated identification of cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) pathway genes, whose phylogenetic distribution implies that the origin of CHC biosynthesis predates the arthropods’ colonization of land.
Victoria C. Moris +12 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Geometric morphometrics (GM) enable the quantification of morphological variation on various scales. Recent technical advances allow analyzing complex three‐dimensional shapes also in cases where landmark‐based approaches are not appropriate.
Tobias Spanke +10 more
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Humusica: Soil biodiversity and global change [PDF]
Bulletin of Geography. Physical Geography Series, 2018 Abstract Born in Trento (Italy, 2003) for the purpose of standardising vocabulary and units of humus form classification, after publishing a first synthetic classification e-book (Zanella et al. 2011) they do not cover all site conditions in the European area.
Zanella, Augusto +8 more
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Synchronised monitoring of plant and insect diversity: a case study using automated Malaise traps and DNA-based methods [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe occurrence and distribution of insects and their possible associations with plant species are largely unknown in Germany and baseline data to monitor future trends are urgently needed.
Leighton Thomas +8 more
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Indicator framework for measuring quantity and quality of biodiversity - exemplified in the Nordic countries [PDF]
, 2012 In 2002, world leaders made a commitment through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Anders Glimskär +25 more
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The Impact of Global Climate Change on Tropical Forest Biodiversity in Amazonia [PDF]
, 2002 Species’ ranges are configured according to their tolerance of environmental conditions, especially climate, and their history of dispersal since speciation.
Miles, Lera Jane
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The geometric mean of relative abundance indices : a biodiversity measure with a difference [PDF]
, 2011 This work is partly supported by the European Research CouncilThe 2010 Biodiversity Target of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), set in 2002, which stated that there should be ‘a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss ...
Anne E. Magurran +16 more
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Protosiphonorhinus patrickmuelleri gen. et sp. nov., the first fossil member of the sucking millipede family Siphonorhinidae (Colobognatha, Siphonophorida) described from Cretaceous Myanmar amber [PDF]
Evolutionary SystematicsMillipedes (Diplopoda) are an abundant group of fossilized terrestrial arthropods throughout the Palaeozoic Era. However, there is a gap in the Mesozoic Period with only slightly more than a dozen fossils known, until more recent fossil records – mainly ...
Leif Moritz +2 more
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