Browsing by Subject "Biodiversity"
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A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges.
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A fast-moving target: achieving marine conservation goals under shifting climate and policies.
(Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 2020-01)In the Anthropocene, marine ecosystems are rapidly shifting to new ecological states. Achieving effective conservation of marine biodiversity has become a fast-moving target because of both global climate change and continuous ... -
A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas.
(Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2017-07)Environmental conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas (MPAs), have proliferated in recent decades. Designed to conserve marine biodiversity, many MPAs also seek to foster sustainable development. As is ... -
An ecosystem-based deep-ocean strategy.
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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-06-16)The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed ... -
An Information Systems Strategy for the Environmental Conservation Community
(2008-04-25)As the cause of environmental conservation emerges as a global priority, the need for a practical information systems strategy shared among conservation organizations becomes imperative. Historically, researchers ... -
ASSESSING THE BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT POTENTIAL OF FOREST PATCHES FOR CONSERVATION PLANNING
(2008-12-04)Biological diversity is a critical component controlling ecosystem function and resiliency, yet it remains difficult to measure at the spatial and temporal scales relevant to conservation. Recently, biodiversity surrogates ... -
Avian Distribution Patterns and Conservation in Amazonia
(2007-10-19)In this dissertation, I address the distribution and conservation of the Amazonian avifauna at several different scales. In Chapter 1, I looked at how the spatial bias in ornithological collections affects our understanding ... -
Behavioural ecology and infectious disease: implications for conservation of biodiversity.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2019-09)Behaviour underpins interactions among conspecifics and between species, with consequences for the transmission of disease-causing parasites. Because many parasites lead to declines in population size and increased risk ... -
BioTools: Developing and Investing in Biodiversity Responsible Business
(2010-09-03)The objective for these tools is to encourage the conservation of biodiversity through private sector investment in biodiversity business. The tools seek to enable both investors and business developers to create viable ... -
Bird extirpations and community dynamics in an Andean cloud forest over 100 years of land-use change.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2020-06)Long-term studies to understand biodiversity changes remain scarce-especially so for tropical mountains. We examined changes from 1911 to 2016 in the bird community of the cloud forest of San Antonio, a mountain ridge in ... -
China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2016-04)The giant panda attracts disproportionate conservation resources. How well does this emphasis protect other endemic species? Detailed data on geographical ranges are not available for plants or invertebrates, so we restrict ... -
Clean Water Through Conservation in the Jordan Lake Watershed
(2019-04-25)Watershed management is becoming increasingly holistic. Novel approaches are needed to satisfy the interests of diverse stakeholders – including municipal water users, environmental groups, and agricultural communities. ... -
Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020-11)The global distribution of primary production and consumption by humans (fisheries) is well-documented, but we have no map linking the central ecological process of consumption within food webs to temperature and other ecological ... -
Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.
(Science, 2014-12-12)Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades. ... -
Delimiting species without nuclear monophyly in Madagascar's mouse lemurs.
(PLoS One, 2010-03-31)BACKGROUND: Speciation begins when populations become genetically separated through a substantial reduction in gene flow, and it is at this point that a genetically cohesive set of populations attain the sole property of ... -
Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach.
(Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2015-02)Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land-use change and drainage has severely damaged ... -
Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures.
(PloS one, 2011-01)<h4>Background</h4>Species may respond to a warming climate by moving to higher latitudes or elevations. Shifts in geographic ranges are common responses in temperate regions. For the tropics, latitudinal temperature gradients ... -
Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia.
(PloS one, 2015-01)Deforestation causes habitat loss, fragmentation, degradation, and can ultimately cause extinction of the remnant species. Tropical montane birds face these threats with the added natural vulnerability of narrower elevational ... -
Elucidating the impact of microbial community biodiversity on pharmaceutical biotransformation during wastewater treatment.
(Microbial biotechnology, 2018-11)In addition to removing organics and other nutrients, the microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) biotransform many pharmaceuticals present in wastewater. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship ...
