Millennial landscape and tourist development in China. The case of the Hani rice terraces in Yunnan by Myriam Dao

“…The conservation stakes are not only environmental – biodiversity, sustainable development – but also identity-based through vernacular and minority cultures. …”
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Conservation Subdivision: Post-construction Phase—Policy Directions and the Importance of Assessing Stakeholder Opinions by Daniel Feinberg, Mark Hostetler

“…New policies need to be developed that encourage developers of conservation developments to adopt long-term management practices that support biodiversity conservation. This 5-page fact sheet discusses policy options that could be used to support conservation management practices and reports on a survey of Colorado landowners who have created conservation developments and their opinions about a policy option to support the implementation of management practices. …”
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« Là où on nous attend le moins ». L’animal comme fiction d’investigation architecturale by Dominique Rouillard

“…Developed as part of a long-term research project, this question was introduced as a learning tool for disaccustoming in thinking and theorizing architecture (the city, the territory), as well as an initiation to ecological and environmental issues: the animal as a theoretical and surreal fiction in research.To this end, students were placed in the uncomfortable position of rejecting currently existing hypotheses surrounding the animal in the context of “biodiversity loss”, which have been gradually reaching schools of architecture, and even renouncing the thousand-year history of the relationship between architecture and the animal. …”
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Faire valoir et apprécier : des produits alimentaires aux paysages by Geneviève Teil

“…This research process considers the landscape as a creation, a device whose nature constitutes the challenge itself : a social device if it aims to enhance communication between people, biological if it aims to ensure the biodiversity, esthetical if it is supposed to be beautiful.…”
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Analytic transparency is key for reproducibility of agricultural research by Gudeta W. Sileshi

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Sustainable intensification of agriculture: the foundation for universal food security by Glenn Denning

“…To curb further loss of natural ecosystems and associated land degradation, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, sustainable intensification (SI) is redefined as a process in aggregate, comprising a portfolio of interventions at global, regional, and national levels that increase food availability and reduce agriculture’s environmental footprint. …”
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A educação no contexto da globalização: migrações e direitos humanos by José Marín, Pierre R. Dasen

“…The cultural diversity of knowledge, beliefs and world visions must be considered in the context of biodiversity. Education emerges as a fundamental question in the hope of sections of civil society that can be regrouped under the term alter-globalisation which proposes the construction of a better world.…”
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Conservation Subdivision: Post-construction Phase—Policy Directions and the Importance of Assessing Stakeholder Opinions by Daniel Feinberg, Mark Hostetler

“…New policies need to be developed that encourage developers of conservation developments to adopt long-term management practices that support biodiversity conservation. This 5-page fact sheet discusses policy options that could be used to support conservation management practices and reports on a survey of Colorado landowners who have created conservation developments and their opinions about a policy option to support the implementation of management practices. …”
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IFAS Assessment of Non-native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas: Status Assessment by Alison M. Fox, Doria R. Gordon, Joan A. Dusky, Linda Tyson, Randall K. Stocker, Kenneth A. Langeland, Aimee L. Cooper

“…Cooper, is the component of the IFAS Assessment that provides evaluations of plants that currently occur within Florida. designed to identify those non-native plant species that are invasive in areas of Florida where designated management objectives include the conservation of native biodiversity. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Agronomy, April 2009.   …”
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Regards sur les systèmes de paiements pour services écosystémiques en milieu agricole au Québec by Sophie Lavallée, Jérôme Dupras

“…Despite the growing interest they arouse, market instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES), are still far from being the dominant political strategies in the conservation of biodiversity and protection of the environment, in Quebec as elsewhere. …”
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Integrative systematics with structural monophyly and ancestral signatures: Chionoloma (Bryophyta) by Richard Zander

“…The reframing of this portmanteau genus directly affects the apprehension of biodiversity and rescues two genera from epistemological extinction.…”
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El papel de las mujeres amatlecas en la conservación biocultural dinámica del maíz nativo en Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Tepoztlán, Mor by Erica Hagman Aguilar, Montserrat Gispert Cruells

“…The community is located in a region of high biodiversity. In this study we pursue to identify the cultural, environmental and socio-economic factors that have contributed to the preservation of native maize in this community. …”
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Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters by Julius A. Ellrich, Clemens Kozian-Fleck, Markus Brand, Bérenger Colsoul, Bérenger Colsoul, Bernadette Pogoda, Bernadette Pogoda

“…Oyster reefs are biodiversity hotspots with multiple ecosystem functions and services that are declining worldwide. …”
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Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships by Guiyao Zhou, Nico Eisenhauer, Zhenggang Du, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Kaiyan Zhai, Miguel Berdugo, Huimin Duan, Han Wu, Shengen Liu, Daniel Revillini, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Hua Chai, Xuhui Zhou, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

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A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica by Charlotte A. Seid, Avery S. Hiley, Marina F. McCowin, José I. Carvajal, Harim Cha, Shane T. Ahyong, Oliver S. Ashford, Odalisca Breedy, Douglas J. Eernisse, Shana K. Goffredi, Michel E. Hendrickx, Kevin M. Kocot, Christopher L. Mah, Allison K. Miller, Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, Rich Mooi, Timothy D. O'Hara, Fredrik Pleijel, Josefin Stiller, Ekin Tilic, Paul Valentich-Scott, Anders Warén, Mary K. Wicksten, Nerida G. Wilson, Erik E. Cordes, Lisa A. Levin, Jorge Cortés, Greg W. Rouse

“…The value of careful molecular taxonomy and comprehensive specimen-based regional inventories is emphasized for biodiversity research and monitoring.…”
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Measurement report: A comparative analysis of an intensive incursion of fluorescing African dust particles over Puerto Rico and another over Spain by B. Sarangi, D. Baumgardner, A. I. Calvo, B. Bolaños-Rosero, R. Fraile, A. Rodríguez-Fernández, D. Fernández-González, C. Blanco-Alegre, C. Gonçalves, E. D. Vicente, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, O. L. Mayol-Bracero

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Identifying pesticide mixtures at country-wide scale by Cairo, Milena, Monnet, Anne-Christine, Robin, Stéphane, Porcher, Emmanuelle, Fontaine, Colin

“…This information will hopefully be of interest for future ecotoxicological studies to characterise the actual impacts of pesticide cocktails on biodiversity in the field.…”
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A dataset of Antarctic ecosystems in ice-free lands: classification, descriptions, and maps by Anikó B. Tóth, Aleks Terauds, Steven L. Chown, Kevin A. Hughes, Peter Convey, Dominic A. Hodgson, Don A. Cowan, John Gibson, Rachel I. Leihy, Nicholas J. Murray, Sharon A. Robinson, Justine D. Shaw, Jonathan S. Stark, Mark I. Stevens, John van den Hoff, Jane Wasley, David A. Keith

“…Abstract Antarctica, Earth’s least understood and most remote continent, is threatened by human disturbances and climate-related changes, underscoring the imperative for biodiversity inventories to inform conservation. Antarctic ecosystems support unique species and genetic diversity, deliver essential ecosystem services and contribute to planetary stability. …”
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Distribution of Cetaceans in the Canary Islands (Northeast Atlantic Ocean): Implications for the Natura 2000 Network and Future Conservation Measures by Inma Herrera, Inma Herrera, Manuel Carrillo, Marcial Cosme de Esteban, Ricardo Haroun

“…The waters of the Canary Islands are considered a hotspot for marine biodiversity, especially regarding cetacean species. …”
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Testing the effect of ecolabels on the environmental impact of food purchases in worksite cafeterias: a randomised controlled trial by Madison Luick, Cristina Stewart, Michael Clark, Paul Bateman, Elizabeth Biggs, Brian Cook, Melissa Little, Gina M. Wren, Susan A. Jebb, Rachel Pechey

“…., greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, eutrophication, and water scarcity). …”
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