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Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation
Biological Conservation, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all parts of human society. Like everyone else, conservation biologists are concerned first with how the pandemic will affect their families, friends, and people around the world.
R. Corlett +13 more
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 The fire management went through a ripening process. Initially, the exclusion of fire was the strategy of environmental preservation, but it resulted in accumulation of biomass fuel and severe fires.
Camila Souza Silva +3 more
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Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems [PDF]
, 2009 Deforestation is a main driver of climate change and biodiversity loss. An incentive mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Baillie +34 more
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Biodiversity conservation in China: A review of recent studies and practices
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2020 Biodiversity conservation plays an important role in the sustainable development of human society. China had made significant progress in biodiversity conservation studies and practices. This paper reviews major achievements in China in the past decades,
Wei Wang +3 more
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Sustainable development and conservation of biological heritage in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]
, 1999 The aim of this paper is to encourage greater attention by planners to conservation of native or indigenous biodiversity. It explains what is meant by indigenous, or native, biodiversity and why indigenous biodiversity conservation must become an on ...
Jay, Grace Mairi M.
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Biodiversity As An Ecological Safety Condition. The European Dimension [PDF]
, 2015 The main purpose of the paper is to indicate the theoretical bases of biodiversity protection from the perspective of the natural and economic sciences, and to describe the diversity of biodiversity protection levels in the EU states.
RzeĊca, Agnieszka
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Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Urban Development
Sustainability, 2020 Urbanization is a major driver of environmental change and is closely linked to the future of biodiversity. Cities can host a high richness of plants and animals, and this urban biodiversity supports multiple regulating, provisioning and cultural ...
I. Kowarik, L. Fischer, D. Kendal
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Coral Communities on Marginal High-Latitude Reefs in West Australian Marine Parks
Diversity, 2021 Many temperate reefs are experiencing a shift towards a greater abundance of tropical species in response to marine heatwaves and long-term ocean warming worldwide.
Claire L. Ross +6 more
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The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation [PDF]
, 2009 Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth.
Al-Jumaily, Masaa +5 more
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The need for ecocentrism in biodiversity conservation
Conservation Biology, 2020 Over the past 5 decades, scientists have been documenting negative anthropogenic environmental change, expressing increasing alarm, and urging dramatic socioecological transformation in response.
Bron Taylor +5 more
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