A user’s guide to biodiversity indicators
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Urban expansion as a driver of biodiversity loss: Integrating biodiversity in urban planning in African context
Africa has high biodiversity and is rapidly urbanizing. However, there is limited understanding of how urban expansion in Africa is likely to affect its habitats and biodiversity. Little urban ecological research has been done in Africa. This study needs to think ahead as Africa move into the “urban age” it is critical to inform the public on the importance of urban environment...
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Rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals of phylum Rotifera, live in a diverse range of aquatic habitats. They are important in ecology of freshwater ecosystems by recycling nutrients and can alter trophic dynamic of planktonic communities. These features have also been used to infer environmental conditions in an aquatic habitat. Because of the important roles of this group of animals in the t...
متن کاملReconciling Biodiversity Indicators to Guide Understanding and Action
1 United Nations Environment ProgrammeWorld Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB2 0DL, UK 2 Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK 3Microsoft Research, Cambridge, CB1 2FB, UK 4 Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research (CBER), Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gowe...
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1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................5 2. A FOCUS ON MARINE/COASTAL BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS IN SIDS .............................7 3. POPULATING THE SIDS BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS: DATA AVAILABILITY, STATUS AND TRENDS .............................................................................................
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Concern that European forest biodiversity is depleted and declining has provoked widespread efforts to improve management practices. To gauge the success of these actions, appropriate monitoring of forest ecosystems is paramount. Multi-species indicators are frequently used to assess the state of biodiversity and its response to implemented management, but generally applicable and objective met...
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