Towards a Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory (GLOSOB): science and policy backgrounds
Soil OrganismsThe world’s soils harbor an immense but as of yet inadequately measured and understood biodiversity, that perform essential ecosystem services in both undisturbed and agroecological and industrial agricultural systems.
George Brown +16 more
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Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2017 Conservation science is a rapidly developing discipline, and the knowledge base it generates is relevant for practical applications. It is therefore crucial to monitor biases and trends in conservation literature, to track the progress of the discipline ...
Moreno Di Marco +10 more
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International Deployment of Microbial Pest Control Agents: Falling Between the Cracks of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper considers one tangled web of conflicting developments. It involves the popular desire to replace chemical pesticides with more “natural” biological control strategies, plus a slowly emerging awareness of a less benign side to microbial pest ...
Knudsen, Guy R.
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, 2018 Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world. It performed an expansion of its Protected Areas system in order to better preserve nature and to accomplish international agreements, such as the Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity ...
A. Pacheco, A. C. Neves, G. Fernandes
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Kunming Summit on the Convention on Biological Diversity and China’s Environmental Diplomacy
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2020 Beijing’s environmental diplomacy has gained growing momentum in recent years, reflecting China’s activism in a shifting global political and economic landscape. The upcoming 15th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming
Hongyuan Yu, Yunjie Zhu
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Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Biodiversity, 2007 M. Lehmann
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Galliformes science and species extinctions: what we know and what we need to know [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012 In early 2010, the 193 Parties that had signed up to the Convention on Biological Diversity all acknowledged that they had failed to meet the target that they had set themselves in 1992 of significantly reducing species extinctions by 2010. At the end of
McGowan, P. J. K. +2 more
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Countdown to 2010: Can we assess Ireland’s insect species diversity and loss? [PDF]
, 2010 peer-reviewedThe insects are the most diverse organisms on this planet and play an essential role in ecosystem functioning, yet we know very little about them.
McCormack, Stephen +4 more
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Bioinformatics, the Clearing-House Mechanism and the Convention on Biological Diversity [PDF]
, 2004 This paper will discuss the development and role of the Convention’s Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM), its synergies with the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), and its support for bioinformatic initiatives in light of the Convention’s programme areas and ...
Silva, Marcos R.
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