Major topics include ecosystem services biological pest control, conservation agriculture, drought stress, and soil biodiversity, carbon and fertilisation.
Joe is a conservation biologist and author with research interests in biodiversity and ecosystem services, biological invasions, marine population genetics, and marine ecology.
Genital plethysmography and functional magnetic resonance imaging are the latest technologies misused in the service of biological reductionism and neo-eugenics (euphemistically called sociobiology and evolutionary psychology).
Deborah Fuller, the endangered species program coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service's office in Lafayette, La., led the team that reviewed the minerals service's biological assessment.
For example, requirements such as biocompatibility, life service or biological integration have to be translated in terms of material, manufacturing process or treatment.
Because they may provide a significant service of biological control, the hoverflies that overwinter within agricultural fields should be taken in consideration in the management of croplands, through agricultural practices for example.
The agency signed off on the minerals service's biological evaluation, even though that assessment considered only the risks to wildlife based on spills of 1,000 to 15,000 barrels — a minuscule amount compared with the hundreds of thousands of barrels now spewing into the gulf.
Blood was collected in EDTA and lithium heparin vacutainer tubes, and immediately send to the laboratory for analysis (by means of a specialized transport service for biological materials) where BNP concentrations were assayed using the Bayer ADVIA Centaur™.
Land degradation has a wider scope than both soil erosion and soil degradation in that it covers all negative changes in the capacity of the ecosystem to provide goods and services (including biological and water related goods and services – and in LADA's vision - also land-related social and economic goods and services).
Management of ecosystem services refers to the management of 'areas of various scales in such a way that ecosystem services and biological resources are preserved, while appropriate human uses and options for livelihood are sustained' (Brussard et al. 1998 10).
