Combining sustainability with intensification is not a contradiction and is, in fact, essential; sustainability requires the efficient use of all inputs in cropping, and husbandry of the soil and agricultural biodiversity needed to continue to raise productivity.
This disturbance is part of the dynamic processes occurring within balsam fir forests, and its effects on biodiversity need to be understood in order to move closer towards sustainable forest management.
It has been suggested that, since different species often influence different functions, the level of biodiversity needed to sustain multifunctionality in ecosystems is higher than previously thought [15][16].
Over the past years, this has led to the realisation that broader ecological values such as biodiversity need to be taken into account (Worm and others 2006).
European policies on protecting biodiversity need to be coordinated and integrated with other sectoral policies, particularly those relating to farming, forestry and fisheries, and policies on the prevention of natural disasters, in order to ensure maximum protection of biodiversity.
It is worth noting that the GEMCONBIO project concludes that biodiversity conservation needs to be determined from local economic and social characteristics as well as local, national and international ecological needs.
The American experience underlined that, unlike greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity often needs protection at the precise locations where it is under threat, and European officials acknowledged that biodiversity trading would be even more problematic than carbon trading.
At least in the eastern two-thirds of the Amazon, we're finding that … there's a lot of unrevealed biodiversity that needs to be looked at. .
The Smithsonian's new institute "is a hugely important development for the planet," Hebert says, as biodiversity genomics needs to be ramping up.
