Negotiations on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) convene after a significant hiatus during which intellectual property monopolies have come under intense normative and pragmatic scrutiny. This paper historicises developments in legal arrangements over...

Ökologischer und konventioneller Landbau wirken sich unterschiedlich auf die Biodiversität aus. Zwei gegenläufige Effekte sind dabei zu berücksichtigen: Die höhere Biodiversität auf den Flächen des ökologischen Landbaus und der geringere Flächenverbrauch des konventionellen Landbaus....

Biodiversity loss will be an increasingly important source of risk and opportunity for the insurance sector. The significant degradation of ecosystems has the potential to materially impact global finance, economies, and societies alike. Understanding the physical and transition risks associated...

Energy generated from land-based wind power is expected to play a crucial role in the decarbonisation of the economy. With the looming biodiversity and nature crises, spatial allocation of wind power cannot, however, any longer be considered solely a trade-off against local disamenity costs....

Das Konzept der differenzierten Landnutzung wurde bereits vor 50 Jahren formuliert, um Biodiversität zu erhalten und die dazu erforderliche Landschaftsstruktur zu bewahren oder wiederherzustellen. Es ist zwar im Bundesnaturschutzgesetz verankert worden, aber es fehlt noch immer ein Monitoring...

An intrinsic feature of agriculture is the alteration of biodiversity within the cultivated area in favour of the production of the crop species. Ploughing, mechanical weeding or the use of herbicides, for example, reduce plant diversity and abundance, and influence other species that rely on...

Our results indicate that there is limited effect of agricultural subsidies on the agricultural biodiversity. By using unique farm-level data, we show that subsidies support rather income of farmers than agricultural biodiversity. The results are robust to size, practice management and altitude...

Ökologischer und konventioneller Landbau wirken sich unterschiedlich auf die Biodiversität aus. Zwei gegenläufige Effekte sind dabei zu berücksichtigen: Die höhere Biodiversität auf den Flächen des ökologischen Landbaus und der geringere Flächenverbrauch des konventionellen Landbaus....

Agricultural intensification riding on the Green Revolution ushered bountiful production of selected staples (rice, wheat, maize) in the developing nations and caused a significant economic growth. It showered a new hope through a package of high-yielding seeds of rice and wheat, laying networks...

This paper explores the impact of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing on observed bird abundance, based on about 700 million individual birdwatcher records over 60 years in the U.S. Among the 50 listed species investigated, we find that 28 species experience a decline while 22 species...

Biodiversity conservation will eclipse climate change risk mitigation and adaptation as the next grand challenge for sustainable finance. Closing the financial gap between what is currently spent and what is needed to be spent over the next ten years to mobilize private investment to maintain...

Biodiversity conservation will eclipse climate change risk mitigation and adaptation as the next grand challenge for sustainable finance. Closing the financial gap between what is currently spent and what is needed to be spent over the next ten years to mobilize private investment to maintain...

"Access to genetic resources" and "fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising [from their] utilization" is the third objective of the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The expression is included in the full title of the 2010 Nagoya Protocol (NP). Neither agreement...

In times when the role of science in society is more debated than ever in polarized, politicized and partial terms, what is the role for the human right to science and rights-based approaches? The right to science remains poorly understood and neglected in both national and global human rights...

The intensification, extensification and abandonment of agricultural land will each play a major role in the future development of European landscapes. However, their impacts on various dimensions of sustainability vary spatially. This creates challenges but also opportunities for landscape...

Co-invasion of exotic plant species is common in the field, but works to date have focused on the study of single or two exotic species. Few studies tested effects of plant species richness over two invasive species on plant, soil and microbial properties. In the study, three-invasive species...

Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and consequently has polluted numerous water bodies through agricultural runoff. Treatment wetlands (TWs) have shown great promise for mitigating such pesticide contamination. The objectives of our study were to determine the effects of...

Seabirds are bioindicators of marine ecosystems and one of the world's most endangered avian groups. The creation of marine protected areas plays an important role in the conservation of marine environment and its biodiversity. The use of top predators distributions, as seabirds, for the...

The evaluation of extinction risk has typically focused on individual species, although a shift to a focus on ecosystem function would appear to be an urgent priority for conservation planning, especially considering that a sixth mass extinction event has already begun. In the present study, we...

Across western Canada, more frequent and severe droughts are expected to occur asa result of climate change. Forests are particularly vulnerable to drought as it oftenresults in mortality events even years following a moisture deficit. Similar events havebeen observed in Saskatchewan...

The need for protecting traditional knowledge (TK) has been acknowledged in discussion and negotiations under the umbrella of a number of inter-governmental organizations that deal with biodiversity, the environment, indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, food and agriculture, among others....

Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystems productivity generating negative impacts on the global economy. Even though the economy is dependent on biodiversity or its ecological processes, few companies develop Biodiversity Conservation Actions (BCA) to benefit ecosystems, despite the growing number...

Exploring the relationship between heavy metals and moss communities is important for the protection of moss diversity and the ecological restoration of manganese mine environments. Herein, we explored the physiological and ecological indicators (superoxide dismutase, peroxide, catalase, and...

Herein, the decomposition temperatures and gases of nitrogen species formed in carbon materials were investigated via high-temperature temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) analysis of nitrogen-doped carbon with a shell-like structure of several layers of graphene as a model material, and the...

This study was conducted to investigate species diversity and relative abundance of birds in Lake Hawassa and its adjoining areas from August 2017 to February 2018. Systematic random sampling techniques at an interval of 3km were used to select sampling grids. Data were analyzed by using PAST...

There is growing awareness amongst both financial policy makers and financial institutions of the need to better understand the links between the financial system and biodiversity loss. Central banks and financial supervisors have so far focused more on the risks posed by biodiversity loss to...