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[link] by Garry Peterson Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation ( ESPA ) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem service science. The success of this idea has lead to many “payment for ecosystem service” schemes, which are now being implemented or are being discussed. MORE
Rotenone, applied in modern fisheries management at less than 100 parts per billion , has never been seen to harm a human, wild mammal, bird or reptile or to permanently affect an aquatic ecosystem except to restore it. “Conservation” is no longer enough. MORE
Biodiversity was high on the agenda in Mexico when the country hosted the 13 th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) last month. MORE
I hate that new stuff : Are novel ecosystems cheapening restoration policies? Fewer than 5% of papers in the top 20 conservation biology journals are open access. Conservation Biology). Woodpeckers pound their heads repeatedly with no ill effects. What can we learn from them? MORE
You reach the floating station, which serves as an algal farm to capture biological fuel. NSP schematic Natural swimming pools are balanced living aquatic ecosystems, you reflect. Including the frogs and that little water strider for their role in providing a healthy ecosystem. MORE
That kind of expansive perspective is typical of Auerbach, who sculpted and studied literary criticism and molecular biology as an undergraduate. “I Most people who are diverting water to irrigate their fields aren’t interested in harming the ecosystem and spoiling our heritage. MORE
The Traveling Naturalist, our series featuring natural wonders and biological curiosities for the science-inclined wanderer. These bats are not just a tourist attraction, but also a valuable ecosystem service. MORE
ecosystems to function and humans to thrive. Without biodiversity in an ecosystem we would not have the many plants and animals we find in our world today, including us. The different plants and animals in an environment work together to maintain balance in the ecosystem [1]. MORE
Biodiversity, short for biological diversity refers to the variety of life. That area can be as large as the earth itself or it can be in a very small ecosystem such as the life in and surrounding a patch of moss on a fallen tree trunk. Biodiversity and the ecosystem sustainability. MORE
Where the abyss touches the sky: A Booby and Noddy ecosystem. Birds Bird Evolutionary Biology body sizeI was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. MORE
We know that agriculture is dependent on often undervalued ecosystem services, from pollination to nutrient cycling ( Power 2010, Wratten et al. Ecosystem services in biologically diversified versus conventional farming systems: benefits, externalities, and trade-offs. MORE
Her study of tourism operations – published in Conservation Biology – led to several immediate and important management changes in the marine park. NatureNet Fellows Coral Reefs disease Ecosystem Services NatureNet tourism Joleah Lamb, NatureNet Science Fellow. MORE
Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. And increased Nyala have overgrazed the endangered Sand Forest ecosystem in the park, and reduced cover for the Suni means that tiny antelope has been declining… In such a situation, inaction condemns a threatened ecosystem and a number of species dependent on it vulnerable to oblivion. Conservation conservation biology hunting lionsHi there. MORE
What does a field guide that covers one of the most biologically diverse countries look like? Briefly, the Pantanal “is a seasonally flooded wetland covering more than 80,000 square miles&# and the Cerrado is “a distinctive Brazilian habitat as well as one of the planet’s biologically richest savannas.&# Both are under threat from a variety of interests, and those threats and possible solutions that would allow at least some of the habitat to be conserved are discussed. MORE
Fast forward a week later and I was in Cambridge, England, along with Conservancy Chief Scientist Peter Kareiva, at an international conference organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society on the topic of synthetic biology and how it may influence the future of nature and conservation. MORE
NPR : A law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill requires the government to assess the biological damage from big spills so fines can be fixed and damage paid for. The National Academy of Sciences has a report describing the methods and metrics of determining the "ecosystem services" that have been lost due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In some ways, ecosystem services valuation is a rose under a different name (here is the ecosystem valuation website ). MORE
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Gretchen Daily and the Natural Capital Project : No one knew exactly how the science of ecosystem services would work, beyond the idea that it would combine ecology with economics. MORE
One promising solution is Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), a system in which people are paid to protect areas of land that benefit people in a variety of ways. That is one goal of the PES program in Costa Rica and the National Biological Corridor Program. MORE
The paper’s authors, led by Carolina Murcia of the University of Florida and the Orgainzation for Tropical Studies, said the evidence is clear: Any ecosystem can be restored, given enough resources. The answers are as various as ecosystems, novel or otherwise. Novel Ecosystems. MORE
Yet, for many interventions, that evidence base currently is less than solid, especially interventions that aim to increase the provision of ecosystem services. Conservation Biology 25(5):1032-1043. Conservation Biology 15:50–54. The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. MORE
For one, people who use natural areas possess a wealth of knowledge of these ecosystems, making it a no brainer to involve local people in conservation. Michelle Venter studies whether local monitoring efforts might be just as effective as monitoring completed by professional scientists. MORE
The goal of beaver dam analogues (BDAs) is to provide short-term structural complexity that facilitates dynamic physical and biological processes. From the Field Wildlife Ecosystem Services Field Notes Mammals Resilience Restoration Water Wetlands MORE
In this model companies invest heavily in research and development and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents. Its seed-patenting model has been rightly criticized as biopiracy and threatens ecosystem biodiversity. MORE
Steven Manley, a biology professor who specializes in kelp, said that “kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth, and one thing about it is it has a large surface canopy which means it is continually exposed to the air and whatever contaminants are in it.” MORE
At its most basic, the technique uses two pieces of local data — size of fish and maturity of fish — combined with existing biological information to produce a ratio of spawning potential. MORE
By Michael Smith (Veshengro) A recent article in the New York Times about the work Stanford University biology professor Gretchen Daily is doing in Africa and Costa Rica highlights the importance of ecosystem services, or putting a value on ecosystems. and he also explained as to why we should put a price tag on ecosystem services. InVest includes coastal and marine ecosystem services. There are companies who seek to quantify ecosystems. MORE
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems. . Let’s consider a simplified example of the biodiversity within a tropical rainforest ecosystem. Further reading: Why Is Biodiversity Important to Ecosystems? We cannot buy an ecosystem. MORE
The Right To Know Rachel Parent No matter what people might believe about GMO and its effects on ecosystem function, biological integrity and human health, enough concern has been raised to warrant clarity in product description. MORE
Against a backdrop of growing global resource demand and climate change — as well as emerging technologies, such as synthetic biology — that are wreaking philosophical havoc, finding the answers is urgent.”. Jon Hoekstra species decline synthetic biology Identity crisis? MORE
Zooplankton are a key element of water ecosystems as they are near the bottom of the food chain. Zooplankton are known to be disturbed by turbulence, however, a new experiment found that turbulence from boats my have an unknown number of potential impacts on water ecosystems. MORE
City governments can contribute more to implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as the 2010 target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss set by governments during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 is not being achieved. MORE
Topics to be addressed include ecosystem considerations in the fishery management process as well as an examination of how social and economic considerations can be incorporated in both traditional single species and ecosystem based fishery management. MORE
In a recent peer-reviewed article in the scientific journal Conservation Biology , I propose a framework that conservation organizations can use in today’s complex world to set objectives and plan strategies to achieve them. MORE
In his own statement at the launch of the Decade, Mr. Akasaka stressed that stable ecosystems have the capacity to create jobs. MORE
And her thoughts immediately jumped to the seagrass ecosystems around the islands where she and her colleagues worked with collaborators at Hasanuddin University in Indonesia. Seagrass ecosystem in Spermonde Islands ©Joleah Lamb. NatureNet Fellows Science Update. MORE
The major disagreements of the evening came over 1) whether outlining global limits for the stable functioning of nature (as opposed to tipping points for individual ecosystems) is good science — and 2) whether “limits” are the correct approach to achieving environmental goals. MORE
As traditional ecosystems are altered to support complex urban infrastructure, the original wildlife is often not able to keep up with those sudden changes in available resources and begins to strive. Yet, bees are a very important part of a functioning ecosystem. MORE
What we now need is a clear understanding of which biological systems offer the most feasible carbon storage opportunities and the new business models that can enable large-scale replication. Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet today. MORE
Not so…finds a study in Biology Letters analyzing famine frequency and severity in a large, cross-cultural database. Biology Letters). Why more biodiversity = more ecosystem resilience : the definitive takeout? Siberian wooly mammoth from The Ivory King. MORE
That’s the question tackled by the new UN report “ Global Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities , ” released on Friday. There is added incentive to protect ecosystems when their value is quantified in economic terms. MORE
Resolved: Ecosystem Services — for or against? Conservation Biology). The Cooler Africa conservation agouti Climate Change Copenhagen cuthroat trout Ecosystem Services jellyfish migration MORE
This study was the first to plot MPAs alongside coastal density, finding that most MPAs are in areas far away from people, in remote ecosystems that typically have high levels of biodiversity and few conflicting demands for ocean space. MPAs of the Future: Protecting for Ecosystem Services. MORE
Farming and ranching can be converted from a global environmental problem into the leading edge of an effort to avert looming biological disaster – and farmers themselves can become more productive and profitable. MORE
The region represents half of Canada’s Pacific coast and is comprised of a thousand uninhabited islands, two thousand river valleys hosting wild salmon and one of the largest unexplored, unprotected marine ecosystems on earth. MORE
Environmental Economics
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Gretchen Daily and the Natural Capital Project : No one knew exactly how the science of ecosystem services would work, beyond the idea that it would combine ecology with economics.
Greentumble
AUGUST 2, 2018
Biodiversity, short for biological diversity refers to the variety of life. That area can be as large as the earth itself or it can be in a very small ecosystem such as the life in and surrounding a patch of moss on a fallen tree trunk. Biodiversity and the ecosystem sustainability.
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Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 19, 2015
Rotenone, applied in modern fisheries management at less than 100 parts per billion , has never been seen to harm a human, wild mammal, bird or reptile or to permanently affect an aquatic ecosystem except to restore it. “Conservation” is no longer enough.
Green (Living) Review
OCTOBER 20, 2011
By Michael Smith (Veshengro) A recent article in the New York Times about the work Stanford University biology professor Gretchen Daily is doing in Africa and Costa Rica highlights the importance of ecosystem services, or putting a value on ecosystems. and he also explained as to why we should put a price tag on ecosystem services. InVest includes coastal and marine ecosystem services. There are companies who seek to quantify ecosystems.
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 29, 2014
I hate that new stuff : Are novel ecosystems cheapening restoration policies? Fewer than 5% of papers in the top 20 conservation biology journals are open access. Conservation Biology). Woodpeckers pound their heads repeatedly with no ill effects. What can we learn from them?
Green (Living) Review
DECEMBER 20, 2011
In his own statement at the launch of the Decade, Mr. Akasaka stressed that stable ecosystems have the capacity to create jobs.
Eco Friendly Daily
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Zooplankton are a key element of water ecosystems as they are near the bottom of the food chain. Zooplankton are known to be disturbed by turbulence, however, a new experiment found that turbulence from boats my have an unknown number of potential impacts on water ecosystems.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 5, 2014
In a recent peer-reviewed article in the scientific journal Conservation Biology , I propose a framework that conservation organizations can use in today’s complex world to set objectives and plan strategies to achieve them.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 21, 2013
Fast forward a week later and I was in Cambridge, England, along with Conservancy Chief Scientist Peter Kareiva, at an international conference organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society on the topic of synthetic biology and how it may influence the future of nature and conservation.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 17, 2018
Farming and ranching can be converted from a global environmental problem into the leading edge of an effort to avert looming biological disaster – and farmers themselves can become more productive and profitable.
Nature Conservancy - Science
APRIL 11, 2013
This study was the first to plot MPAs alongside coastal density, finding that most MPAs are in areas far away from people, in remote ecosystems that typically have high levels of biodiversity and few conflicting demands for ocean space. MPAs of the Future: Protecting for Ecosystem Services.
The Green Changemakers
JANUARY 15, 2011
City governments can contribute more to implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as the 2010 target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss set by governments during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 is not being achieved.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 28, 2015
The paper’s authors, led by Carolina Murcia of the University of Florida and the Orgainzation for Tropical Studies, said the evidence is clear: Any ecosystem can be restored, given enough resources. The answers are as various as ecosystems, novel or otherwise. Novel Ecosystems.
Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
And her thoughts immediately jumped to the seagrass ecosystems around the islands where she and her colleagues worked with collaborators at Hasanuddin University in Indonesia. Seagrass ecosystem in Spermonde Islands ©Joleah Lamb. NatureNet Fellows Science Update.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. And increased Nyala have overgrazed the endangered Sand Forest ecosystem in the park, and reduced cover for the Suni means that tiny antelope has been declining… In such a situation, inaction condemns a threatened ecosystem and a number of species dependent on it vulnerable to oblivion. Conservation conservation biology hunting lionsHi there.
The Alien Next Door
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
You reach the floating station, which serves as an algal farm to capture biological fuel. NSP schematic Natural swimming pools are balanced living aquatic ecosystems, you reflect. Including the frogs and that little water strider for their role in providing a healthy ecosystem.
Conservancy Talk
JANUARY 6, 2017
Biodiversity was high on the agenda in Mexico when the country hosted the 13 th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) last month.
The Alien Next Door
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
The Right To Know Rachel Parent No matter what people might believe about GMO and its effects on ecosystem function, biological integrity and human health, enough concern has been raised to warrant clarity in product description.
Conservancy Talk
MARCH 4, 2016
What we now need is a clear understanding of which biological systems offer the most feasible carbon storage opportunities and the new business models that can enable large-scale replication. Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet today.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
Where the abyss touches the sky: A Booby and Noddy ecosystem. Birds Bird Evolutionary Biology body sizeI was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird.
Nature Conservancy - Science
APRIL 26, 2016
One promising solution is Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), a system in which people are paid to protect areas of land that benefit people in a variety of ways. That is one goal of the PES program in Costa Rica and the National Biological Corridor Program.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 26, 2013
Against a backdrop of growing global resource demand and climate change — as well as emerging technologies, such as synthetic biology — that are wreaking philosophical havoc, finding the answers is urgent.”. Jon Hoekstra species decline synthetic biology Identity crisis?
Nature Conservancy - Science
OCTOBER 7, 2013
That’s the question tackled by the new UN report “ Global Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities , ” released on Friday. There is added incentive to protect ecosystems when their value is quantified in economic terms.
Nature Conservancy - Science
APRIL 14, 2014
Yet, for many interventions, that evidence base currently is less than solid, especially interventions that aim to increase the provision of ecosystem services. Conservation Biology 25(5):1032-1043. Conservation Biology 15:50–54. The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area.
The Alien Next Door
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
In this model companies invest heavily in research and development and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents. Its seed-patenting model has been rightly criticized as biopiracy and threatens ecosystem biodiversity.
Nature Conservancy - Science
APRIL 24, 2014
That kind of expansive perspective is typical of Auerbach, who sculpted and studied literary criticism and molecular biology as an undergraduate. “I Most people who are diverting water to irrigate their fields aren’t interested in harming the ecosystem and spoiling our heritage.
Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Her study of tourism operations – published in Conservation Biology – led to several immediate and important management changes in the marine park. NatureNet Fellows Coral Reefs disease Ecosystem Services NatureNet tourism Joleah Lamb, NatureNet Science Fellow.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 10, 2014
Not so…finds a study in Biology Letters analyzing famine frequency and severity in a large, cross-cultural database. Biology Letters). Why more biodiversity = more ecosystem resilience : the definitive takeout? Siberian wooly mammoth from The Ivory King.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 20, 2016
The goal of beaver dam analogues (BDAs) is to provide short-term structural complexity that facilitates dynamic physical and biological processes. From the Field Wildlife Ecosystem Services Field Notes Mammals Resilience Restoration Water Wetlands
Conservancy Talk
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
The region represents half of Canada’s Pacific coast and is comprised of a thousand uninhabited islands, two thousand river valleys hosting wild salmon and one of the largest unexplored, unprotected marine ecosystems on earth.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 31, 2014
Resolved: Ecosystem Services — for or against? Conservation Biology). The Cooler Africa conservation agouti Climate Change Copenhagen cuthroat trout Ecosystem Services jellyfish migration
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
What does a field guide that covers one of the most biologically diverse countries look like? Briefly, the Pantanal “is a seasonally flooded wetland covering more than 80,000 square miles&# and the Cerrado is “a distinctive Brazilian habitat as well as one of the planet’s biologically richest savannas.&# Both are under threat from a variety of interests, and those threats and possible solutions that would allow at least some of the habitat to be conserved are discussed.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 22, 2013
The Traveling Naturalist, our series featuring natural wonders and biological curiosities for the science-inclined wanderer. These bats are not just a tourist attraction, but also a valuable ecosystem service.
Nature Conservancy - Science
OCTOBER 24, 2013
At its most basic, the technique uses two pieces of local data — size of fish and maturity of fish — combined with existing biological information to produce a ratio of spawning potential.
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 20, 2013
For one, people who use natural areas possess a wealth of knowledge of these ecosystems, making it a no brainer to involve local people in conservation. Michelle Venter studies whether local monitoring efforts might be just as effective as monitoring completed by professional scientists.
Environmental Economics
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Topics to be addressed include ecosystem considerations in the fishery management process as well as an examination of how social and economic considerations can be incorporated in both traditional single species and ecosystem based fishery management.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MARCH 24, 2013
The major disagreements of the evening came over 1) whether outlining global limits for the stable functioning of nature (as opposed to tipping points for individual ecosystems) is good science — and 2) whether “limits” are the correct approach to achieving environmental goals.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 4, 2013
We know that agriculture is dependent on often undervalued ecosystem services, from pollination to nutrient cycling ( Power 2010, Wratten et al. Ecosystem services in biologically diversified versus conventional farming systems: benefits, externalities, and trade-offs.
Environmental Economics
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
NPR : A law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill requires the government to assess the biological damage from big spills so fines can be fixed and damage paid for. The National Academy of Sciences has a report describing the methods and metrics of determining the "ecosystem services" that have been lost due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In some ways, ecosystem services valuation is a rose under a different name (here is the ecosystem valuation website ).
Greentumble
JANUARY 10, 2020
As traditional ecosystems are altered to support complex urban infrastructure, the original wildlife is often not able to keep up with those sudden changes in available resources and begins to strive. Yet, bees are a very important part of a functioning ecosystem.
Greentumble
JULY 1, 2018
ecosystems to function and humans to thrive. Without biodiversity in an ecosystem we would not have the many plants and animals we find in our world today, including us. The different plants and animals in an environment work together to maintain balance in the ecosystem [1].
Sustainability Ninja
APRIL 9, 2012
Steven Manley, a biology professor who specializes in kelp, said that “kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth, and one thing about it is it has a large surface canopy which means it is continually exposed to the air and whatever contaminants are in it.”
Greentumble
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems. . Let’s consider a simplified example of the biodiversity within a tropical rainforest ecosystem. Further reading: Why Is Biodiversity Important to Ecosystems? We cannot buy an ecosystem.
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