However, given that perhaps only 5-105-10%animal species are described [ 4, 21] and that rare taxa are commonly encountered in biodiversity research [ 22], approaches that do not rely upon a well-developed taxonomy would be valuable for accelerating biodiversity research, such as flagging individuals that require taxonomic attention, and for performing rapid biodiversity inventories.
Thanks in part to Chazdon's work, many now see secondary forests as key to restoring biodiversity and performing important ecosystems services, such as providing clean water and sequestering carbon.
This study was based on a survey of vascular plant biodiversity performed along stream bank habitats within an agricultural landscape in southeastern Ontario, Canada.
Current biodiversity informatics is performing large efforts and key developments given the need for plant range status information to increase the quality of the data.
The total economic value of biodiversity provides policy-makers reliable information to estimate welfare losses caused by biodiversity reductions and perform cost-benefit analysis of biodiversity conservation projects.
This corroborates the result of a meta-analysis of BEF experiments where it was found that high biodiversity treatments do not always outperform the best performing monoculture [ 55].
A group of 500 scientists has just released the first-ever assessment of the status of ecosystems in the United Kingdom, evaluating their ability to provide food, sustain biodiversity, and perform many other services.
A literature review on alternative test methods such as behaviour, nutritional performance, indicator for oxygen stress, haematology, histology, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, bioaccumulation and biodiversity was performed in the project and the following conclusions were drawn: 1.
Overall we were able to access a new source of microalgal biodiversity and perform a robust characterization of native tropical microalgae strains leading to the identification of strains with high potential for biotechnological applications.
GC-MS analysis was performed at the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
