biodiversity

Definitions

Examples

• Much of the land identified as important for biodiversity also stores a lot of carbon, underlining the connection between conservation and climate goals.

• Moran says that it will be important to continue analyzing how different treatments affect factors like fire behavior and biodiversity.

• Those limitations include the difficulty of agreeing on what protection actually means, given that countries vary greatly in their needs, resources and priorities for preserving biodiversity.

• “Ecological communities are more resilient when there’s more biodiversity,” Belleny says.

• She focuses on biodiversity — making sure there’s a wide variety of species in a natural area.

• Oil palms are tropical trees and thrive in rainforests, some of the regions on Earth with the highest biodiversity.

• The forests, with their mind-boggling biodiversity, are a staggering 10,000 times older than those of North America and Europe.

• Now the Endangered Species Act (which passed the House 355-4 in 1973) enshrines a national commitment to biodiversity.

• “It is an opportunity to show off our extraordinary biodiversity resources in this country,” says Farinetti.

• This book is dense with both thought and fact, but no one will mistake it for an article in the journal Biodiversity.