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Current Occurrence of the Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus in Northern Spain: A New Prospect for Sturgeon Conservation in Western Europe. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Acipenser oxyrinchus is considered extirpated in Europe, but numerous breeding populations still exist on the Atlantic coast of North America. An adult female A.
Benigno Elvira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aquaculture and Marine Protected Areas: Exploring Potential Opportunities and Synergies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This new publication, aims at exploring potential opportunities and synergies between aquaculture and conservation. Acknowledging that both aquaculture and MPA may benefit from each other in striving for global sustainable development, here are some of ...
Dan Laffoley   +2 more
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Our shifting perspectives on the oceans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In the last 15 years new research findings have radically reshaped our understanding of human effects on ocean ecosystems. Here I describe five major shifts in perspective that reveal our impacts to be more severe and persistent than previously ...
Roberts, C.M.
core   +1 more source

A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limits of stakeholder participation in sustainable development : "where facts are few, experts are many" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Extract from: The Mediterranean coastal areas from watershed to the sea : interactions and changes / by L.F. Cassar ... [et al.]. Proceedings of the MEDCORE International conference, Florence, 10th-14th November 2005The notion of including stakeholders ...
10.1400/61591   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Marine Macroalgae as a Safe Healthy Food While Meeting Food Security Challenges Arising From Climate Changes

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Planned harvesting and processing of marine macroalgae could meet future global food needs and mitigate fuel‐originated carbon dioxide responsible for climate change. Microalgal foods are nutritious and safe. The utilization of macroalgae would avoid environmental problems arising from the release of overgrowing macroalgae caused by heatwaves, which ...
Upali Samarajeewa
wiley   +1 more source

The problem of defining the limits of protected areas in Ukraine regarding to the sustainable land management

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2015
Nowadays all over the world new protected areas are being created. In Ukraine this process is developed within European programs. During the years of independence many new protected areas were created.
Б. В. Даниленко
doaj   +1 more source

Human appreciation of flower colours as cultural ecosystem service in grasslands: A methodological approach

open access: yesGrassland Research, EarlyView.
This literature‐based method estimates human appreciation of flower colours on target grasslands. Step 1: search literature sources (floristic surveys, national floras, web datasets and preference studies). Step 2: flower trait extraction (flower colour and area, flowering period and human colour appreciation scale).
Marco Bianchini   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Indonesia: issues and problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Indonesia is an archipelagic nation comprising some 17,000 islands of varying sizes and geological origins, as well as marked differences in composition of their floras and faunas.
Erdelen, Walter R., Iskandar, Djoko T.
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Strengthening the global system of protected areas post-2020: A perspective from the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Protected areas are the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation and have never been more relevant than at the present time when the world is facing both a biodiversity and a climate change crisis.
Dudley, Nigel   +10 more
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