But the UK does support EU proposals to make more farm subsidies less dependent on the food a farmer produces, and more dependent on "public goods" - for instance, on how farmers treat biodiversity, natural habitats and the landscape.
They argue that treating biodiversity as one composite property corresponding to global values is not helpful, and is a consequence of the fact that "the global consensus is that of wealthy countries" (2002, p. 89).
Finally, and perhaps most urgent, treating biodiversity samples as disposable ignores opportunities to assemble archives of diagnostic samples for future studies.
Some of these are entangled in the very definition of "biodiversity", an issue treated in the first sections below.
Despite meaningful progress made at COP 15 toward developing a REDD framework, it remains unclear whether and how biodiversity will be treated within REDD.
The most important consequence of our unexpected finding is, however, that cryptic metazoan diversity can be treated as random error in biodiversity assessments [ 4].
Climate change and landscape fragmentation are considered to be the main treats to biodiversity.
The role of stochastic events in generating biodiversity, however, is seldom treated properly.
This aspect of conservation planning raises important conceptual issues — including the definition of biodiversity — and will be treated in detail in Section 4. At the third stage, explicit targets and goals must be established for the conservation area network.
Mammals are often treated as flagships for the rest of biodiversity conservation, sometimes at the expense of other species.
