CHRIS WESTON Forest Science Centre University of Melbourne Creswick, Victoria, 3363, Australia ABSTRACT / Conservation planning is the process of locating and designing conservation areas to promote the persistence of biodiversity in situ. To do this, conservation areas must be able to mitigate at least some of the proximate threats to biodiversity. Information on threatening processes and the ...

Sustainable biodiversity is to make use of in a sustainable manner which implies natural resources at rate the nature can renew them. This way ensure that we meet needs present and future generations. Conservation practice protecting preserving variety species, genetic resources, habitats, ecosystem on earth. It essential for food security, economic growth, poverty reduction, resolving effects ...

This chapter concerns the role of pollinators, especially bees, in relation to our agriculture and economy. Besides being a critical participant reproductive process most flowering plants, bees’ pollination services increase crop yields, improve nutritional quality, contribute significantly global However, beekeepers that manage domesticated European honey bee had noticed huge numbers their bee...

Conservation prioritization usually focuses on conservation of rare species or biodiversity, rather than ecological processes. This is partially due to a lack of informative indicators of ecosystem function. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) trap and retain soil and water resources in arid ecosystems and function as major carbon and nitrogen fixers; thus, they may be informative indicators of ecosy...

More than 6400 amphibian species are known worldwide, with more than 50 new species being described in just the fi rst half of 2008 (AmphibiaWeb 2008). Many of these species are threatened or declining and more than 150 may have recently become extinct (IUCN 2006). Such rates of species loss are far greater than the historic background extinction rate for amphibians (e.g. McCallum 2007; Roelant...

Land use and human occupation within the natural habitats of the Pantanal have facilitated introduction of invasive species of plants and animals, including domestic species. Exotic species threaten regional biodiversity because they modify ecological community structure, alter natural habitats and affect local biodiversity. An international organisation, the International Union for Conservatio...

Conservation is defined as the management of natural resources in a way that is positive, embracing preservation, maintenance, sustainable utilisation, restoration and enhancement of the natural environment. This broader concept of conservation will only be realised if applied at all levels of social organisation and at all scales across the landscape – real conservation cannot be achieved in s...