Sentence examples for operational biodiversity from inspiring English sources

Therefore, precaution should be advocated and more studies on biodiversity are needed before operational biodiversity assessments are reliably applied in SIAs.

BINATS is the first operational biodiversity monitoring network for agricultural landscapes in Austria and provides baseline data for three different taxonomic groups as well as for habitat structure diversity.

As part of this process, it has established a target of restoring 40,000 hectares of degraded land to native forest by 2025, as well as implementing procedures to reduce the operational impacts on biodiversity.

Sarkar and Margules also argue that place prioritization algorithms provide an implicit operational definition of biodiversity: it is what is being maximized during the execution of such an algorithm.

Such tools are necessary to make GI into an operational concept for combating biodiversity loss and promoting ES.

A myriad of indices have been developed to characterize landscape patterns, but not all of them are equally suited to evaluate temporal changes in landscape connectivity as is increasingly needed for biodiversity monitoring and operational indicator delivery.

Anthropogenic warming is now the dominant threat to global biodiversity, but objective, operational criteria for assessing species' relative endangerment from climate change remain wanting (IUCN 2001; Willott & Thomas 2001; Thomas et al. 2004).

Richness and biodiversity indices based on operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were extracted using the mothur software platform [ 22].

Instead, more precise operational units could be used to capture genetic biodiversity at multiple levels, and ideally to reveal the evolutionary processes taking place in an environment[ 38, 39].

Developing operational guidelines to help to mitigate ecological damage to biodiversity should be based on cautionary principles and requires further large-scale and long-term research.

The operational phase of the project mapped seabed habitats and their biodiversity throughout the continental shelf in the GBR region by visiting nearly 1,400 sites, stratified along multiple influential environmental gradients (Figure 5).