Think about the proverbial sustainable house of a rich, ecologically enlightened manager, located somewhere in a green isolated valley close to a forest and lake, with solar energy, use of waste as manure, windows open to natural light, etc: the costs of building such a house (to the environment, not only financial costs) make it prohibitive to the large majority.
Micronesia, an area of the world located in the northwest tropical Pacific, is one of the most archaeologically rich and ecologically diverse regions of the world.
This certification program covers all building at all scales and is a unified tool for transformative design, allowing us to envision a future that is socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative," according to its mission plan.
Arthropods first appeared near the base of the Cambrian [49] and constitute the most species-rich and ecologically diverse phylum of the animal kingdom.
We document that spiders, a species-rich and ecologically diverse group of organisms, possess fluorophores and can fluoresce.
Here, we employ macroevolutionary phylogenetic model-selection analyses to address these two predictions about evolutionary diversification using one of the most exceptionally species-rich and ecologically diverse lineages of living vertebrates, the South American lizard genus Liolaemus.
During the announcement, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said: "Bowie Seamount is an oceanic oasis in the deep sea, a rare and ecologically rich marine area, and our government is proud to take action to ensure it is protected.
Such woodland is less productive, in terms of timber yield, but ecologically rich, typically containing a number of "indicator species" of indigenous wildlife.
There is a lot of evidence that species-rich communities are more productive, more ecologically stable, and provide more ecosystem services than those with fewer species (doi 10.1073/pnas.1301685110).
But even more impressive -- and wilder -- were the ecologically rich wooded bottomlands, back eddies and sloughs south of Trempealeau.
The Southern Ocean circles Antarctica and remains one of the most pristine and ecologically rich oceans on earth.
