Here we review disturbance and diversity theory and develop a synthetic conceptual model for use in predicting the effects of disturbances of any origin on biodiversity, focusing on the Pacific Northwest.
While there is some evidence that a non-biodiversity focus in the spatial configuration of conservation networks could severely compromise biodiversity gains there is no work examining whether this is also true for the spatial allocation of restoration effort.
Consequently, there may be a general tendency for a non-biodiversity-focus in restoration planning to greatly compromise biodiversity gain.
Contemporary approaches to involve private land in biodiversity conservation focus primarily on voluntary strategies.
If we want to conserve biodiversity and focus simply on the number of fish species, there is little difference between the three rivers.
While many studies having investigated the effects of landscape complexity or heterogeneity on farmland biodiversity were focus on semi-natural habitats (e.g. forests, hedgerows), few have analyzed the consequences of local crop heterogeneity on species abundance.
Our results suggest that landscape management actions and planning assessments designed for conserving biodiversity should focus on the maintenance of the traditional agricultural mosaic combined with a regulatory legislation limiting the expansion of fast growing tree forests (e.g Eucalyptus stands).
Despite a "growing tendency for media reports about threats to biodiversity to focus on climate change," over-exploitation and agriculture are "by far the biggest drivers of biodiversity decline," the authors write in a comment published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Most forest biodiversity studies focus on old or mature forests and knowledge about the biodiversity in young forests is sorely lacking (but see [14] [16]), although their potential ecological value is likely to be high [17].
While we recognize that restoration of habitats provides numerous benefits additional to CCS (e.g. nutrient cycling, coastal stabilization, preservation of biodiversity), we focus on CCS as a current topic of significant global concern and debate.
For example, the personalized medicine session focused on topics such as mining public databases to provide insights into drug development while the biodiversity session focused on topics such as developing barcodes for all the organisms in a particular ecosystem.
