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Uttarakhand: A hotspot of biodiversity

JOURNAL OF CONVENTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND HOLISTIC HEALTH, 2018
There are 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world, which include Indian Himalayan Region (Samant et al., 1998). Uttarakhand, a state crossed by the Himalayas is enriched with diverse flora and fauna. Ever since times of Ramayana, it is considered as a great reservoir of rare and endangered species that have the power to heal various diseases.
Tapan Kumar Nailwal, Neema . Bisht, Kajal . Sandhu   +2 more
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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl, Alex S. Wegmann, Nick D. Holmes, Caitlin E. Andrews, Gérard Rocamora, Simon Ducatez, James C. Russell   +6 more
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Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Strategic Pathways to Sustainability and Net Zero in Manufacturing Supply Chains

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reaching global net‐zero targets has become an urgent priority as businesses and nations face increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving carbon neutrality in manufacturing supply chains requires comprehensive systemic changes across business processes.
Vimal K. E. K., Sivakumar K., Jayakrishna Kandasamy, Umesh Kumar, Anil Kumar, Ashutosh Samadhiya   +5 more
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Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo, Giuseppe Valenza, Massimo Zuccaro, Simone Pizzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Biodiversity Footprinting Within the Nature‐Related Assessment, Disclosure, and Target‐Setting Landscape

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As awareness of business–nature interdependencies grows, organizations face increasing demands to assess and manage their nature‐related value chain impacts. Policies, standards, frameworks, and metrics are emerging to support impact measurement, disclosure, and target‐setting.
Brayshna Kundi, Sami El Geneidy, Janne S. Kotiaho   +2 more
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque, Saadia Irfan, Linh Thi Tue Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial congruence between carbon and biodiversity across forest landscapes of northern Borneo

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016
Understanding how carbon and biodiversity vary across tropical forest landscapes is essential to achieving effective conservation of their respective hotspots in a global context of high deforestation.
Nicolas Labrière, Bruno Locatelli, Ghislain Vieilledent, Selly Kharisma, Imam Basuki, Valéry Gond, Yves Laumonier   +6 more
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Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke, Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Christophe Christiaen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial dynamic simulation of beetles in biodiversity hotspots

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionColeoptera is the most species-rich order of animals with the widest distribution area; however, little is known about its global suitability distribution, and a substantial number of species are experiencing silent extinction.
Ping He, Ming Bai, Ming Bai, Lulu Li, Lulu Li, Yuanyuan Lu, Yuanyuan Lu, Jing Li, Jing Li, Zihan Yan   +9 more
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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source