Conserving biodiversity, while at the same time meeting expanding human needs, is an issue of utmost importance.
Here, we focus on forest commons in human-dominated landscapes and their role in biodiversity conservation at the same time as they provide livelihood benefits to users.
"We have this massive decline in biodiversity, but, at the same time, over the past decade, there's been this explosion of all types of data — so now is really the time to use them," Laura Pollock, a postdoctoral researcher at Grenoble Alpes University, in France, and the lead author of the Nature paper, told me.
"We have this massive decline in biodiversity, but, at the same time, over the past decade, there's been this explosion of all types of data so now is really the time to use them," Laura Pollock, a postdoctoral researcher at Grenoble Alpes University, in France, and the lead author of the Nature paper, told me.
Farm systems are facing a global challenge amidst a socio-metabolic transition that places them in a dilemma between increasing land-use intensity to meet the growing demand of food, feed, fibres and fuels, while avoiding a biodiversity loss at the same time.
It seems strange to defend biodiversity and at the same time be blind to the necessity of sustaining and even increasing research diversity.
Also quite literally: the threat to biodiversity is at the same time a threat to our own housekeeping.
Co-ordinator Phil Corlett said: "It's really heartening to see the Ramsey Marine Reserve set up in the Island's waters as it shows the Isle of Man is taking steps to protect biodiversity and helping at the same time to conserve vital habitats". An Island Marine Nature Reserve?
In the Mediterranean, nematode diversity also decreases with depth (Figure 4b), but the degree of species decrease is limited and ample ranges of biodiversity are observed at the same depth.
You can insulate your home and increase the biodiversity of your garden at the same time by installing a small-scale green roof.
