MSC and MAST performed this work within the remit of the Adaptations and Physiology Workpackage of the Ecosystems Programme at the British Antarctic Survey.
The research was supported by a Marie Curie FP7-Reintegration-Grant (PCIG-GA-2011-303618) withen the 7th European Community Framework Programme, together with NERC core funding to the British Antarctic Survey Ecosystems programme.
This is a quantum advance for seabird monitoring that can directly complement CCAMLR's ecosystem monitoring programme to achieve conservation objectives under the Convention.
"The IPCC has become the go-to organisation for state-of-the-art knowledge on climate change," said Neville Ash, head of the Ecosystem Managament Programme with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The paper reviews 'state of the art' knowledge and evaluates the near future perspectives for the development and implementation of groundwater ecosystems assessment programmes.
Health and economies both depend on well-managed natural resources and healthy ecosystems," Dominique Charron, programme leader of the Ecohealth programme initiative at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), told me.
There is a limited understanding of the conditions under which payments for ecosystem services (PES) programmes achieve improvements in ecosystem service (ES) flows, enhance natural resource sustainability or foster sustainable livelihoods.
To strengthen the budding ecosystem in Kenya, pilot programmes such as Pharmnet are expanding, with a target of reaching over 1,000 branded outlets nationwide operating in all of Kenya's 47 counties.
While some observers claim that these ecosystems play an important role, others are more sceptical and fear that financial resources may be diverted away from tsunami preparedness programmes to ecosystem rehabilitation schemes.
Stephens and Grist (2014) identified three distinct trends for ecosystem services plantings, comprising: programmes for landscape restoration and farm productivity (1980s); greater recognition of biodiversity values and landscape connectivity from revegetation and planted forests (1990s); and the emergence of carbon markets for forestry and land sector activities (2000s).
