Sentence examples for biodiversity alone from inspiring English sources

So, said Seligmann, "we officially changed our mission — from protecting biodiversity alone to supporting human well-being by restoring and maintaining ecosystems that provide services to humanity".

The East African Great Lakes Victoria, Malawi and Tanganyika - the hotspots of their biodiversity - alone contain more than 1,500 endemic species [ 40, 41, 44, 45], and have therefore been the focus of numerous studies.

Differences in composition are greatest when PHB values are not used to weight ELS points, indicating the significant influence of expert weighting for specific taxa rather than using more general biodiversity value alone.

He pointed to the recent red list update which showed the situation of giant pandas improving, but said: "While flagship species and habitats have an important role in tackling the biodiversity crisis, this alone won't solve the problem.

The central hypothesis is that the heterogeneous mixed vineyard-wildland mosaic considered in this study reflects variability in vegetation and C storage potential, and provides greater C stocks and biodiversity protection than vineyards alone.

Functional traits have been proposed as a more mechanistic way than species data alone to connect biodiversity to ecosystem processes and function in ecological research.

In fact, Norton's observation (Norton 1988) that cost-benefit analysis in terms of human interests alone does not support biodiversity has a striking parallel in arguments about human value.

We have known for decades, based initially on taxonomic information alone, that we are in a biodiversity crisis.

If you did not know that — and if you are not quite sure what biodiversity even means — you are almost certainly not alone.

However, it is unlikely that protected areas alone will stem the tide of biodiversity loss.

That means losing some 1.2 million square kilometres of other landscapes to urban construction alone, many of them rich in biodiversity.