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An ecosystem approach to natural resource conservation in California
There was no framework for the integrated management these objectives require. Time to ... ; the other nine related to the character of the process. The objectives were: Maintaining natural diversity, not only in parks and other protected areas but over the region as ...
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Dryland Diversity
Diversity Dryland Diversity Human and natural interactions in the Earth's vast drylands have global-scale influence. Dryland ecosystems play a major role in global biophysical processes by reflecting and absorbing solar radiation, maintaining ... . Homo sapiens is believed to have evolved in the drylands of Africa.
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MRF > General Forum > Agenda 21
From the 'Ecologically ... consultation with, and respecting the needs and values of, other resource users and maintaining or improving environmental quality for present and future generations." Minerals and Metals ...
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Mining, Environment and Development > Sustainable Development and Mining
From the 'Ecologically ... in consultation with, and respecting the needs and values of, other resource users and maintaining or improving environmental quality for present and future generations." To assist in the ...
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Toward a Canadian Botanical Garden Biodiversity Action Plan
Canada, nor a general awareness of the need to conserve the natural diversity of our rare or endangered native plants. Many habitats have been subjected to greater or ... of benefits from the use of those resources. The impact of these Articles on institutions maintaining collections of living plants is poorly understood within the botanical garden community. Furthermore, a large ...
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Rainforest Gap Research Challenges Biodiversity Assumptions
Earth. Hubbell's latest finding, reported in the current issue of ... logging could be allowed in forests if it mimicked the natural pattern of light gaps; the logging, then, would promote the diversity of trees rather than harm it. That idea is based ...
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Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield (BDG) Program Background
The Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield (BDG, formerly Biological Diversity of the Guianas) is a field-oriented program of the Department Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution ... active in training local scientists and assisting them in setting up and/or maintaining collections in their respective countries. Information from all of our collections is maintained ...
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Earlham -- Biological Diversity -- Apis Mellifera: The Common Honeybee
Koning, 1994). Economic importance for humans Honey bees are important in maintaining natural vegetation since they are a means of transferring pollen between flowers. Another ... project on the conservation of global biodiversity. Earlham · Biology Department · Biology 26 : Biological Diversity Copyright ©-2001 Earlham College. Revised 28 November 2001. Send corrections or comments ...
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Growing Diversity | www.grain.org/gd/
That agricultural cooperatives and local communities in charge of biodiversity managment ... and long-term management of natural resources has to be signed and enforced, -That any innovation regarding natural resources or agricultural genetic diversity has to be subject ...
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Biological Diversity, or Biodiversity, is a key concept in understanding the interrelationships inherent in Nature.
Maintaining biological diversity is a key to keeping the ... picture of the biological diversity of a natural community emerges. When inferring the health of a community from impressions of diversity, the concept of native diversity should be considered. What ...
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