« L’Amazonie – victime des changements climatiques ? » by Sebastian Weissenberger, Delaine Sampaio da Silva

“…The Amazon rainforest is one of most important ecosystems on earth and a biodiversity hotspot. Its future is however in peril due to the effects of climate change and human activities. …”
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field by Jorje Ignacio Zalles

“…From a natural sciences perspective, efforts directed at the conservation of biodiversity are based upon what is known as conservation biology. …”
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Evaluation of Urban Water System Development from the Perspective of Space by XIE Qianwen, LIU Jiangtao, WEI Jie, REN Dawei

“…To adapt to the reform of spatial planning in the new era,this study evaluates the urban water system from the new perspective of space and lays the foundation for the future use of spatial means to realize the optimization and sustainable development of urban water system functions.Taking Shenzhen as an example,this paper divides its urban water system space into four types,namely,resource ecology space,engineering facility space,water-city integrated space,and safety risk space,and evaluates them from the dimensions of the total space,composition and layout,system carrying capacity,and space quality.The results indicate that the space occupancy rate of the water system is generally low,and the local water resources and the carrying capacity of the water environment are limited,which are vulnerable to multiple disasters of floods and surges.The potential risk areas are mainly distributed in densely populated areas and industry-intensive areas.The spatial service quality of the water system has great potential for improvement considering the low biodiversity of rivers and lakes,the insufficient attraction of waterfront space,and a low proportion of the complex utilization of facility space.…”
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Jardins, parcs et paysages dans l’œuvre de Hermann Hesse – ou Par-delà nature et culture by Corinne Fournier Kiss

“…Landscapes, on the other hand, are presented as extensions of gardens and contain a biodiversity as carefully choreographed as any garden. …”
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New records of the rare dragonfly, Black Pennant – Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825) (Insecta: Odonata) in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Toni Koren, Domen Trkov, Kaja Vukotić, Mitja Črne

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Dealing with complexity – Integrating LCA, ERA and ESA to assess human impacts and benefits on the biosphere by Cesare Sposito, Giuseppe De Giovanni

“… How we live, regardless of where this happens, impacts the biosphere and leads to chain reactions in different spheres that affect both nature and humans on a global scale: climate change, health risks, and loss of biodiversity all concur in a polycrisis condition that amplifies the state of uncertainty surrounding our future and the vulnerability of the entire ecosystem, especially since the design actions put in place do not address the cogent environmental issue systemically and holistically. …”
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Avaliação dos impactos do uso público em trilhas: uma metodologia baseada no estudo de uma trilha interpretativa - Parque Estadual Mata dos Godoy, Paraná by Claudia Melatti, Rosely Sampaio Archela

“…The current dilemma is how to maintain environmental conservation and public visitation in protected areas without compromising the biodiversity of the site and at the same time the quality of public access. …”
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Green actions for innovative cities. The new agri-food landscape by Emanuele Sommariva, Nicola Valentino Canessa, Giorgia Tucci

“…., flooding, heat islands), or to promote the conservation, resilience and biodiversity of natural habitats. Specifically, urban agriculture and community gardens play an important role, helping to secure various socio-ecological benefits on a local basis and to promote access to healthy, Zero Km sources. …”
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L’usage de la télédétection pour l’évaluation économique des écosystèmes marins : application à l’aire marine protégée de Tristão en Guinée by Vincent Turmine, Thomas Binet, Pierre Failler

“…From an application perspective, this modelling process is particularly relevant to regions of data-poor marine ecosystem mapping where biodiversity conservation is developed or large-scale areas where access is made difficult and costly in time and financial resources. …”
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Les « pratiquants » de l’Agriparc : mise en perspective des valeurs environnementales liées au milieu de vie by Hélène Houdayer

“…Indeed the Agripark operates the links between nature and culture by playing on users’ emotions, by the organic nature of implemented crops, and by giving a special attention to the biodiversity aspect of the project.…”
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Les élevages pour questionner la relation à l’animal avec des élèves de maternelle by Raphaël Chalmeau, Monique Lafitole, Sophie Mourgues, Maéva Ramos Béato, Gabrielle Bergamaschi, Lucile Mortelecque, Dorothée Sales-Hitier

“…The relationship between humans and non-humans is a renewed research theme in view of contemporary issues related to the place of humans in the living world and the protection of biodiversity. This question lies at the interface of scientific learning in schools, the inclusion of the affective dimension in this learning, and the acquisition of a sense of responsibility towards the living world. …”
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L’articulation entre savoirs et actions dans trois dispositifs environnementaux : conservation, évaluation d’impact et restauration by Laura Rodriguez, Vincent Devictor, Virginie Maris

“…Nature is sometimes conceived as a coevolution between traditional human activities and biodiversity (in conservation), sometimes as a list of species (in the EIA), and sometimes as a functional and reticulated ecosystem (in ecological restoration). …”
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Prośrodowiskowe kształtowanie terenów zieleni - propozycje dla dzielnicy Ursynów m.st. Warszawy by Justyna Staroszczyk, Antoni Skowroński

“…It presents selected methods of shaping green areas and nursing plants, which are in common use in Western Europe and USA, but are under-used in Poland, the main aim of the article is to propose solutions which allow to shape green areas in the Ursynów district of Warsaw in favor of environmental protection e.g. in a way that makes it possible to preserve biodiversity or reduce drink water use.…”
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Impact of Hypoxia on the Community Structure of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria by Nkwoji Joseph Ahamefula

“…There was generally low biodiversity indicating the stressed nature of the study area. © JASEM Keywords: Hypoxia, diversity, benthic, macroinvertebrates, lagoon…”
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Economic Value of Mangrove Forest Ecosystem in Unit XXXIII Kubu Raya Forest Management Unit by Handayani Handayani, Emi Roslinda, M. Sofwan Anwari

“…This research aimed to estimate the direct economic value (timber, charcoal, aquatic biota, processed products, honey, and Nypa roof), indirect economic values (abrasion prevention, carbon stock, oxygen production, intrusion barrier), and optional economic value (biodiversity) of mangrove forest ecosystems. This research used two assumptions to calculate the total economic values: with and without timber utilization activities for charcoal production in the Unit XXXIII Kubu Raya Forest Management Unit (FMU). …”
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Publisher Correction: In silico comparative genomic analysis unravels a new candidate protein arsenal specifically associated with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. albedinis pathogenesis by Hafida Ayada, Boutayna Dhioui, Hamid Mazouz, Abdelhay El harrak, Fatima Jaiti, Bouchra Ouhmidou, Mohammed Diouri, Mohieddine Moumni

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Modeling the role of fish population in mitigating algal bloom by Mohammad Sajid, Arvind Kumar Misra, Ahmed S. Almohaimeed

“…Algal blooms pose a significant threat to the ecological integrity and biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. In lakes, enriched with nutrients, these blooms result in overgrowth of periphyton, leading to biological clogging, oxygen depletion, and ultimately a decline in ecosystem's health and water quality. …”
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Normaliser le sauvage : l'expérience française des cueilleurs professionnels by Claire Julliand, Florence Pinton, Raphaële Garreta, Jean-Paul Lescure

“…In metropolitan France, this activity has long been perceived as marginal, whereas more than 10% of plant biodiversity relates today to this "wild" economy. In 2011, gatherers founded the Association Française des professionnels de la Cueillette de plantes sauvages (AFC) to ensure the preservation of plant resources and prevent from pillages that can occur in rural areas.”. …”
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Pêcheurs artisanaux en AMP : gardiens de la biodiversité ou des frontières maritimes ? (San Andrés, Colombie) by Justine Berthod

“…The Biosphere Reserve fulfills above all a geopolitical function, making fishermen guardians of national frontiers rather than guardians of the biodiversity.…”
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Naxi Cosmology of Mt Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation by Jan Salick, Robbie Hart, Li Siyu

“…Through participatory mapping, free listing, and extended semi-structured interviews, we explored relations of Naxi cosmologies of sacred space with “biodiversity conservation”. For this commonly espoused partnership, we found encouragement, skepticism and challenges. …”
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