Biodiversity - Science topic

ಪಶ್ಚಿಮಘಟ್ಟಗಳ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕಪ್ರದೇಶ ನಿರ್ಧಾರ ಬೆಂಬಲ ತಾಣ (ಪಶ್ಚಿಮಘಟ್ಟಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಪರಿಸರ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ವಲಯಗಳು) Western Ghats Spatial Decision Support System (Ecologically Sensitive Regions in the Western Ghats) Web: https://wgbis.ces.iisc.ac.in/sdss/wgsdss/index.php (designed and developed as part of LiFE – LIFESTYLE FOR ENVIROINMENT) ಪ್ರಮುಖಾಂಶಗಳು • ಪಾರಿಸಾರಿಕ-ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮತೆಯ ಆ...

Species of genus Chrotogonus (surface grasshoppers) are phytophagous and damaging to various economical important plants in their seedling stages. In order to know the biodiversity of surface grasshoppers, the detailed study has been conducted from four provinces of Pakistan. During this study, biodiversity, taxonomy, diagnosis, morphometric analys...

Aunque los bosques secos pudiesen parecer ambientes inhóspitos en determinados momentos del año, presentan una alta riqueza de especies. Tan sólo en Mesoamérica se han reportado más de 380 especies de mamíferos en este tipo de ecosistema, lo cual equivale a un 6% de toda la biodiversidad de mamíferos del mundo. No obstante, estos bosques y su biodi...

»Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal...

Length–weight relationships for Pike Esox aquitanicus and Esox lucius from France are provided. A total of 9,070 specimens were collected, measured and weighted from 1981 to 2022 throughout France by Departmental Angling Federations and the French Biodiversity Agency during their survey by electrofishing. For all species, the values of b are 2.960...

This paper titled "Millet: An analysis from alternative food perspective" dealt with the nutritional content of the millet, an analysis of Odisha millet mission and awareness and use of millet by housewives. A total number of 80 respondents were interviewed for data collection. The study was confident to find out awareness about the use of millet a...

Nature-based solutions (NbS) rapidly develop globally to address societal challenges and provide human well-being and biodiversity. Watershed restoration plays an essential role in enhancing the ecological and socio-economic benefits of the region. The design and implementation of watershed restoration projects are crucial to their effectiveness, a...

In recent years, with the rapid development of modern science and technology, as people utilize various scientific and technological means to alter the characteristics of organisms, potential hazards to the ecological environment and human health may arise. Due to the extensive application of modern biotechnology, genetically modified (GM) technolo...

The purpose of this chapter is to study which environmental factors are considered by primary school students to explain the biodiversity of particular environments. The study is part of the Patis Biodivers project, which aims to understand and promote biodiversity in schoolyards through authentic inquiry-based science education. Data were collecte...

This study was aimed at determining the impact of meteorological events (seasonal variations) and sand excavation activities on turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) of Imo River, Southeastern Nigeria. In-situ measurements of the parameters were carried out at the peaks of two consecutive seasons-dry and rainy season-at 7 major points of sand...

Article History Correspondence to Keywords Manuscript No. c182 The NorthEastern Region of India, comprising the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim is renowned for its immense biodiversity which has made it a priority area for investment by the leading conservation agencies of the world. Mos...

Se obtuvieron datos para 231 especies en 119 géneros, depositados en la colección de entomología del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, distribuidos principalmente en la región Andina en cuatro subfamilias: Pyrrhopygini (13 géneros, 27 especies), “Pyrginae” (53 géneros, 114 especies), Heteropterinae (1 género, 11 esp...

La construcción de caminos genera impactos ambientales en los ecosistemas que atraviesan, al fragmentar y transformar los hábitats. Esto afecta el ensamble de especies en áreas degradadas y contribuye a la introducción y al aumento de especies de plantas exóticas e invasoras. La introducción de especies invasoras cambia la abundancia y la composici...

Los balances de agua y energía en cuencas hidrográficas condicionan la formación del terreno, la distribución y productividad de la vegetación. Se define el número adimensional de Budyko, B, como la relación entre la precipitación media anual (P) y la evapotranspiración potencial media anual (PET), B = P / PET, en cuencas hidrográficas. Este número...

Biodiversity Extinction Thresholds due to Forest Loss in the Atlantic Forest

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are a cornerstone of 21st century area-based conservation targets. In tropical KBAs, biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, because most species reside within or beneath the canopy, where small increases in temperature can lead to novel climate regimes. We quantify novelty in temperature regimes...

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are emerging technologies with a variety of potential benefits for sustainability education. Here, learning processes such as flow and presence seem to determine the learning experience. Therefore, this paper presents the results of a mixed-methods study investigating a VR- and AR-based learning appli...

The surveying of European Union (EU) Annex I habitat “8110 - Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani)” is generally executed by humans. However, robots could increase human monitoring capabilities. To this end, we collected information on this habitat employing the quadrupedal robot ANYmal C....

Despite intensive research on the beetle fauna of the Nahe valley, very little is known about the fauna of the river and its banks. A total of 12,632 beetles in 364 species were recorded in eleven different bank flushing samples (two from 1991 and nine taken between 2017 and 2022) at the river Nahe. A number of remarkable records for the Rhineland,...

Increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition affects biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we do not know whether the effects of N on above‐ground plant β‐diversity are coupled with changes occurring in the soil seed bank. We conducted a long‐term N‐addition experiment in a typical steppe and found that above‐ground β‐diversity increase...

While bird populations are declining, the factors associated with this decline are unclear. Based on laboratory experiments, air pollution has long been recognized as a factor causing oxidative stress and adversely affecting bird health. Recently, studies employing an epidemiological approach have reported significant declines in avian populations...

Clonal growth can be especially advantageous in spatially heterogeneous environments and some clonal plants are highly invasive or superdominant, especially in disturbed environments. However, their temporal dynamics in the absence of large disturbances are not well known. We assessed whether patches dominated by the native bracken fern Pteridium a...

While climate and land use change are commonly known to interactively affect biodiversity worldwide, their interactive effects have rarely been explored, hindering our understanding of the attribution of biodiversity change to each of these two drivers. Here, we used ensemble species distribution models to project the potential distribution of 200...

Livret de synthèse d'une conférence donnée en trois lieux différents au sein du Géoparc du Beaujolais (Villefranche-sur-Saône, Beaujeu, Tarare) en Septembre-Octobre 2023. Un grand merci à toute l'équipe du Géoparc pour l'organisation de ces conférences, et plus particulièrement à Floriane Hélou-Frugier pour la réalisation de ce livret. Visitez le...

This article interprets part of the migratory and colonization processes that occurred in the South of Brazil and in Misiones, in Argentine, in the Araucaria Forest area, driven by private colonizing companies and by the public repopulation policies of the twentieth century. It used studies from agronomists and other Argentine researchers that iden...

In 1934, Marty introduced the concept of hyperstructures, which serves as a generalization of algebraic structures. Hyperstructures have applications in various fields, including biology, where they prove useful for analyzing the different types of hyperstructures in inheritance. On the other hand, NeutroHyperstructures combine Neutrosophic sets wi...

Effective monitoring of habitats is crucial for their preservation. As the impact of anthropic activities on natural habitats increases, accurate and up-to-date information on the state of ecosystems has become imperative. This paper presents a new dataset collected from the forests located in the Tuscan Apennines (Italy) using the ANYmal robot. Th...

In efforts to develop a geopark in the Ternate City area which already has geological diversity, biological diversity and cultural diversity, the proposed geopark area also needs to pay attention to other pillars in developing the geopark area, namely sustainable development, conservation and also local economic development.

This article presents Desafio das Armadilhas, a didactic and cooperative card game to popularize science and raise environmental awareness with a thematic “combat hunting”. Methodologically, this is research of pedagogical intervention. The game was developed in partnership with Instituto Pró-Tápir, and approaches educational information about enda...

Introduction To achieve effective conservation objectives, it is crucial to map biodiversity patterns and hotspots while considering multiple influencing factors. However, focusing solely on biodiversity hotspots is inadequate for species conservation on a landscape scale. This emphasizes the importance of integrating hotspots with the home ranges...

For more than five decades the VVE has been actively involved in biodiversity projects. The digital revolution created a new environment where we, in real-time, are networking together. We realise the importance of two-way communication between virtual-real and real-virtual spaces. Part of the correct and result-linked communication strategy is to...

We propose a scheme for supervised image classification that uses privileged information, in the form of keypoint annotations for the training data, to learn strong models from small and/or biased training sets. Our main motivation is the recognition of animal species for ecological applications such as biodiversity modelling, which is challenging...

Accurate detection and quantification of mRNA isoforms from nanopore long-read sequencing remains challenged by technical noise, particularly in single cells. To address this, we introduce Isosceles, a computational toolkit that outperforms other methods in isoform detection sensitivity and quantification accuracy across single-cell, pseudo-bulk an...

A Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental - AIA é uma atividade necessária para aprovar a implantação e/ou operação de projetos de diversos empreendimentos, como os do setor elétrico. Como há uma falta de padronização dos indicadores e também de políticas públicas relacionadas aos impactos ambientais gerados pelo setor elétrico sobre a biodiversidade, o pre...

Today's society faces a daily loss of biodiversity, which will increase in the face of climate change and environmental pollution. It is a severe problem in the so-called biodiversity hotspots, such as urban and rural areas of cities where human behavior towards nature is still differentiable, playing a crucial role in environmentalism and biodiver...

A vast cross-societal effort will be needed to achieve the ambition of protecting and conserving 30% of the earth’s lands and oceans by 2030, as called for in Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. While focus is often given to the 30% coverage aspect of this target, other elements – on the location and effectiveness of pro...

O presente estudo trouxe propostas para o desenvolvimento de estudantes, associando a formação dos educandos à realização de atividades de Educação Ambiental com abordagens sobre a Década dos Oceanos e os Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável no litoral sul do Espírito Santo. Após passarem por formação técnica e fundamentação teórica, os estudan...

Facing the challenges arising from climate change and biodiversity loss, the tool of protected areas has been gaining increasing attention. This phenomenon is similarly observed in the Antarctic. At this critical juncture, revisiting the practice of the Antarctic Treaty System in relation to the Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA), particularly...

La degradación del suelo tiene como consecuencia directa la pérdida de la biodiversidad, la emisión de gases efecto invernadero y el desbalance del ciclo hidrológico del agua, reduciendo la capacidad productiva del suelo y la respuesta de este a las enmiendas y actividades de conservación, generando bajos rendimientos y mayores requerimientos hídri...

(Introducción): La restauración ecológica es una prioridad global para recuperar la biodiversidad y alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. Desde su creación en el año 2000, la Reserva Natural Madre Verde en Costa Rica ha sido un modelo en este sentido. En 2005 se realizó una caracterización de las comunidades vegetales presentes: pastizal...

La cordillera Chongón Colonche forma parte del hotspot de biodiversidad Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena debido a la alta concentración de especies endémicas. El estudio se realizó en dos tipos de hábitat: bosque maduro y bosque secundario, en un total de seis bosques protegidos dentro de la cordillera. Utilizamos datos obtenidos a partir de una cuadrícula d...

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural and human-altered ecosystems across all continents, we illustrate the distributions and drivers of different lev...

La deforestación se ha convertido en una invariante en el modo de producción/destrucción dominante. Esto constituye un problema mayúsculo. Pese a que las medidas orientadas a ponerle límite están aumentando, aún son insuficientes para detener el patrón destructivo que obedece a una clara racionalidad económica. En este trabajo interrogamos algunas...

Lake Abant became a nature park on October 21, 1988. The Park is connected to Mudurnu (Bolu) district and is spread over an area including high mountains up to 1800 meters. Lake Abant, located at 1350 m a.s.l, is one of the most important areas in the center of the park. With a maximum depth of about 18 meters, the Lake is a landslide lake and its...

Le constat d'effondrement planétaire de la biodiversité est alarmant. Un regard, un siècle en arrière permet cependant de constater combien la vallée de l'Ubaye (nord des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), à son échelle géographique (environ 1000 km2), a vu sa biodiversité s'enrichir fortement grâce à différents phénomènes : déprise agricole, conquête fores...

Species distribution models are the most useful tools that reveal the relationships of target species with environmental variables. The most frequently preferred environmental variables are bioclimatic parameters due to their ability to be interpolated into the future. Bioclimatic variables can be downloaded from various databases at different reso...

Los grandes incendios forestales están dejando de ser algo excepcional en Canarias para convertirse en un fenómeno habitual. Para reducir y gestionar la vegetación o combustible forestal es necesario que el pastoreo tradicional evolucione hacia un pastoreo prescrito donde el objetivo no sea solo la producción de alimentos sino también la prevención...

Response diversity describes the variation in species' ecological responses to environmental change, where higher response diversity represents a greater variety of species-environment responses. The concept complements the insurance hypothesis that biodiversity increases and stabilizes ecosystem functions because population declines of one species...

Resumo: Observou-se que diferentes áreas que constituem o bioma Pantanal foram afetadas por grandes incêndios entre 2019 e 2020. A frequência de estiagens, em decorrência das mudanças climáticas, tende a alterar o regime hidrológico dos rios que compõem as bacias hidrográficas do Paraguai e do Paraná. O objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar que a flex...

Species’ ecological niches are frequently analysed to gain insights into how anthropogenic changes affect biodiversity. Coping with these changes often involves shifts in niche expression, which can disrupt local biotic interactions. Secondary contact zones, where competition and ecological segregation commonly occur, are ideal for studying the eco...

The Azorean archipelago, recognized as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, is home to a diverse and unique community of arthropod species, highlighting a notable degree of endemism. However, the native forests that support these species are facing significant degradation due to habitat loss and fragmentation. In this study, we aimed to determ...

Gain-of-function (GOF) variants give rise to increased/novel protein functions whereas loss-of-function (LOF) variants lead to diminished protein function. Experimental approaches for identifying GOF and LOF are generally slow and costly, whilst available computational methods have not been optimized to discriminate between GOF and LOF variants. We...

Blog contribution to the SFB 294 Blog "Transformation of Property"

La iluminación nocturna ha mejorado nuestra calidad de vida. Sin embargo, la contaminación lumínica, resultado del exceso y dispersión descontrolada de luz artificial, es un tema desconocido en la sociedad y merece atención urgente. En este documento, se discute cómo la luz artificial altera los ritmos naturales de las plantas, como la fotosíntesis...

Freshwater fish represent approximately half of the world’s fish diversity. In Guatemala, 258 species of native freshwater fish have been recorded, of which approximately 6% are endemic to the country. This chapter adds 15 new records to the species list. Due to the hydrological diversity and local and regional ecological and evolutionary processes...

By developing a conceptual analysis, this research explores the possibility of fostering a convergence between digitalization and sustainability, also named digitainability. This convergence is often seen as an opportunity to solve the various challenges the agrifood sector faces nowadays, especially those of feeding more people without deteriorati...

El Hierro island is postulated as the most biodiverse of the archipelago. To verify this hypothesis, the 87 individuals collected throughout the island were genotyped with 20 SSRs. As a result of this study, 28 varieties were described, 6 of which were new (Uval piñero, Uvalero volcánico, Pinar negro, Seis de Carlos, Tesoro blanco, Uval negro), and...

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar la percepción y la opinión de 250 personas en relación con la biodiversidad urbana y las estrategias de gestión económica y ambiental en entornos urbanos. Se implementó un cuestionario estructurado que abordó temas clave, incluida la importancia de la biodiversidad urbana, las especies comunes, los de...

Einführung in das Schwerpunktthema

Atualmente uma das principais ameaças à biodiversidade é a invasão biológica. Poucas são as ferramentas para o controle e monitoramento. Neste sentido este trabalho estruturou e testou procedimentos de modelagem de nicho potencial a partir de dados de ocorrência de Hovenia dulcis Thunberg, e Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A.Gray, utilizando os algo...

The study examined the evolution of research on the linkages between agri-food systems and nutritional security globally using bibliometric analysis of 1057 documents listed in SCOPUS database from 1984 to May 2023. The study identified major keywords in the literature, such as food security, India, nutrition, and climate change, establishing their...

This study presents a comprehensive analysis encompassing the synthesis, structural elucidation, photophysical behavior, and electrochemical properties of a novel series of chalcogen-naphthoquinone-1,2,3-triazole hybrids. Employing a meticulously designed protocol, the synthesis of these hybrids, denoted as 11a–j, was achieved with remarkable effic...

The desert ecosystem occupies an important position in the composition of global biodiversity. The Tarim Basin is located in south Xinjiang of China and has the world’s second largest mobile desert, the Taklamakan Desert. As an endemic species in this region, Phrynocephalus forsythii has been demonstrated to have a potentially high extinction risk...

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural and human-altered ecosystems across all continents, we illustrate the distributions and drivers of different lev...

Many of present researchers have given their attention to the contribution of traditional home gardens for the biodiversity conservation of Sri Lanka which belongs to the world biodiversity hotspots. For this research, five traditional home gardens of the intermediate zone from Belihuloya, Seelogama and Yakdehiwala Grama Niladhari Divisions were se...

Floristic Diversity - Biology and Conservation invites you to embark on a remarkable exploration of our planet’s rich tapestry of plant life, from the arid deserts to the aquatic realms. This book is a call to action, a passionate plea to become stewards of our natural world. Delve into the intricate beauty of our flora and aquatic ecosystems, and...

The new terricolous lichen species Thamnolecania yunusii Halıcı, Güllü, Bölükbaşı & Kahraman, which is characterised by its cream to greyish brown granulose-crustose thallus without vegetative propagules, is described from Horseshoe Island in the South-West Antarctic Peninsula region. All Thamnolecania species are known only from the Antarctic. The...

Understanding the mechanisms underlying diversity–productivity relationships (DPRs) is crucial to mitigating the effects of forest biodiversity loss. Tree–tree interactions in diverse communities are fundamental in driving growth rates, potentially shaping the emergent DPRs, yet remain poorly explored. Here, using data from a large‐scale forest bio...

Food Sovereignty (FS) is growing in popularity in food-nature academic discussions. This systematic review depicts 1) the level of engagement and 2) the topics related to the “Works with Nature” pillar (WwNP) of food sovereignty present in the academic literature. Most articles engaged with this pillar. Common topics included ecological agriculture...

Background and objectives: Successful policy implementation relies on understanding stakeholders’ willingness to contribute to policy goals. The EU Green Deal, with strategies on forests, biodiversity, and the bioeconomy, also depends on the performance of the forestry sector, including a significant portion of privately owned forests. Materials an...

Resumo: O uso humano do mel é uma atividade possivelmente tão antiga quanto a própria humanidade, figurando entre as primeiras formas de manejo que os seres humanos implementaram com a biodiversidade da qual fazem parte. Foram encontradas evidências paleontológicas do uso do mel nas civilizações egípcias e pré-colombinas e observações importantes a...

The social-ecological systems (SES) approach elicits a broad understanding of some of the most pressing socionatural challenges (e.g. resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, and climate change) and the responsibility that humans have in addressing them. System dynamics has proven a powerful paradigm for dealing with complex SES-related issues. Here w...

Invasions are a driving force behind the loss of biodiversity, but the effect of invasion on native symbiont communities has received scant attention. While invasive hosts may present an opportunity to native symbionts through providing a novel host environment, invasive hosts could also be noncompetent host, resulting in negative impacts on native...

The rapid urbanization observed in Asian tropics has resulted in extensive landscape transformations, giving rise to novel challenges such as conflicts of interest among citizens and threats to biodiversity. To facilitate informed urban management policies, there is a pressing need for contemporary land use and cover maps that provide precise insig...

Recent survey work in Costa Rica has resulted in the discovery of new species of derbid and cixiid planthoppers associated with palms. During this survey, one species belonging to the genus Anotia has been discovered and described, A. firebugia. A second species was collected while sweeping trailside vegetation in the Los Angeles cloud forest in Co...