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An ecosystem approach to natural resource conservation in California
Increasingly, the missions of resource agencies were being shifted from their traditional goals to achieving sustainability and maintaining natural diversity. There was no framework for the integrated management these objectives require. Time to act Although concepts of regional resource planning had been discussed for decades in the United ...
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Dryland Diversity
Dryland 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 a balance of atmospheric constituents, and sustaining biomass and biodiversity. The Earth's drylands have also been the stage for dramatic events in ...
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MRF > General Forum > Agenda 21
From the 'Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Group (ESDWG), Final Report - Mining', Australian Government Publishing ...
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Mining, Environment and Development > Sustainable Development and Mining
From the 'Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Group (ESDWG), Final Report - Mining', Australian Government Publishing ...
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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 Science, ... s Center for Tropical Conservation. There have been many suggestions that logging could be allowed in forests if it mimicked the natural pattern of light gaps; the logging, then, would promote the ...
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Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield (BDG) Program Background
Background About the Program 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, that has been operating since 1983. The goal of the BDG is to study, document and preserve the biological ...
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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 importance is for the utilization of products humans may use, such as honey, beeswax, royal jelly. Conservation ...
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Growing Diversity | www.grain.org/gd/
That institutions have to be efficiently involved in valorizing traditional knowledge and products, which help maintaining biological diversity, -That agricultural cooperatives and local communities in charge of biodiversity managment have to be reinforced and that a coherent development policy joins the conservation local members ...
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Biological Diversity, or Biodiversity, is a key concept in understanding the interrelationships inherent in Nature.
So, when a naturalist talks about ... cascading results of such losses weaken the natural community in many indirect ways that humans sometimes have a difficult time grasping. Maintaining biological diversity is a key to keeping the planet ...
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