And many invaders actually boost biodiversity, not decimate it.
So we may have been thinking backwards—it’s not that the tropics have greater biodiversity. Could be that the seasons of today’s temperate zones have diminished the biodiversity that once flowered.
Forests provide shelter for people and habitat for great plant and animal biodiversity; they protect soil and water and help maintain a stable climate.
Now what? "As background, in the year 2002, the U."N. Convention on Biological diversity set a goal of slowing the rate of biodiversity loss around the globe by 2010.
For reasons that had little to do with biodiversity, he and his colleagues were monitoring grassland plots at the university's Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Then a drought hit.
A rich variety of cultivated plants and domesticated animals are the foundation for agricultural biodiversity.
Human activity has caused profound changes to the climate, biodiversity, oceanic acidity and greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere.
Depending on the product category, they must also include other environmental data, such as the product's water footprint and impact on biodiversity.
Also, he points out, biodiversity has aesthetic and spiritual values.
This finding highlights the need for further research on Australia's unique, and sometimes cryptic, biodiversity.
In the natural world, increased biodiversity is closely correlated with higher whole-system productivity - ie the rate at which energy and material inputs are translated into growth.
There should be no national boundaries in biodiversity protection.
Loss of species from climate change has certainly been suggested as a possible concern as well, but biodiversity in the Earth's warming periods has increased, not decreased historically.
From the rain forests of the northeast to the arid high plateau that runs like a spine through the south Peru is blessed with incredible biodiversity-a bounty that is clearly reflected on its plates.
The first questions whether the raw data about forest cover are a good indicator of biodiversity, at least for big animals.
Invasive species can decrease biodiversity and drive resident species to the brink of extinction.
Forests are home to over 80% of terrestrial biodiversity.
The pressures on the countries richest in biodiversity have not diminished, and many regions still remain unexplored.
The country has one-third of the world's tropical rain forests, the largest reservoir of fresh water (20 percent of the world's total), and a savanna with the greatest biodiversity in the world.
It turns out that raising animals for food is a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and not least of all, global warming.
