BIODIVERSITY BENEFITS OF SCALING UP MARINE ECO-ENGINEERING

Human health benefits supplied by Mediterranean marine biodiversity.

This paper summarizes the overall benefits supplied by Mediterranean marine biodiversity to human health and highlights the anthropogenic and environmental causes that are threatening these benefits. First, the Mediterranean Sea is a valuable source of seafood, which is an important component of the so-called "Mediterranean diet". This type of diet has several health benefits, including cardio ...

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments.

As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation grows. In many countries, private gardens are a major component of urban green space and can provide considerable biodiversity benefits. Gardens and adjacent habitats form interconnected networks and a landscape ecology framework is n...

Valuation of Biodiversity Benefits

Benefits and Challenges of Scaling Up Expansion of Marine Protected Area Networks in the Verde Island Passage, Central Philippines

Locally-established marine protected areas (MPAs) have been proven to achieve local-scale fisheries and conservation objectives. However, since many of these MPAs were not designed to form ecologically-connected networks, their contributions to broader-scale goals such as complementarity and connectivity can be limited. In contrast, integrated networks of MPAs designed with systematic conservat...

Scaling biodiversity under neutrality

Introduction To better understand biodiversity scaling, it may be useful to characterize the biodiversity scaling relationships that arise from the neutral perspective. This exercise will help in formulating quantitative null hypotheses for observed biodiversity scaling relationships. Here we use the term biodiversity to refer not only to species richness, but also to relative species abundance...