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Nancy Trautmann

Top 35 biodiversity videos | SavingSpecies - 0 views

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    Useful videos on these topics: - What is Biodiversity? - The Science of Biodiversity - Importance of Biodiversity - Losing Biodiversity - Saving Biodiversity - Promoting Biodiversity - Videos for and by Kids
Courtney Wilson

A to Z of areas of biodiversity importance - 0 views

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    "Use the A to Z to find out about different areas of biodiversity importance. These include internationally recognised protected areas such as World Heritage Sites and Ramsar Sites, as well as the many approaches used to prioritise areas for conservation effort and protection including Biodiversity hotspots and Key Biodiversity Areas. "
Nancy Trautmann

Biodiversity photo gallery and definitions - 0 views

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    From the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, "inspirational thoughts from scientists, thinkers, and conservationists on what biodiversity means to them"
Nancy Trautmann

National Science Foundation (NSF) News - New NSF resources highlight surprising ecologi... - 0 views

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    "Multimedia resources explain little known societal benefits of biodiversity, bust myths and describe new, high-tech approaches for measuring impacts of environmental change on biodiversity"
Nancy Trautmann

Biodiversity | EarthSky - 0 views

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    NPR Earth & Sky interviews with scientists about topics related to biodiversity
Nancy Trautmann

Land Use Calculator : Apps for Development - 1 views

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    The Land Use Calculator is a tool for rapid scenario analysis of land-use implications, useful for decision-makers to address real-world challenges and for classroom teaching of conservation biology, sustainable development, environmental economics and global change biology. It is a decision-support tool targeted at land-use decision-makers in the tropic, allowing users to evaluate the implications and tradeoffs of pursuing alternative development scenarios by simultaneously accounting for the societal priorities of agricultural production, economic development, carbon conservation and biodiversity protection. Users specify a few environmental and socioeconomic parameters describing a landscape scenario, and the tool determines the implications of that scenario in terms of biodiversity, carbon stocks, greenhouse-gas emissions, financial returns of the land and employment opportunities.
Kim Handel Linkinhoker

Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at AMNH - 0 views

shared by Kim Handel Linkinhoker on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
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    The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's mission is to mitigate critical threats to global biological and cultural diversity by: * advancing scientific research in diverse ecosystems; * strengthening the application of science to conservation practice and public policy; * developing professional, institutional, and community capacity; and * furthering the Museum's efforts to heighten public understanding and stewardship of biodiversity.
laurie asermily

Why Is Biodiversity Important? Who Cares? - Global Issues - 0 views

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    biodiversity, who cares
Nancy Trautmann

Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity - 2 views

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    Nearly 20% of all people-more than a billion-now live within biodiversity hotspots, and their growth rate is faster than the human population at large. This article presents nine steps to reduce biodiversity loss, with a goal of relegating human-caused extinctions to the wrongs of the past.
Nancy Trautmann

As Threats to Biodiversity Grow, Can We Save World's Species? by Lee Hannah: Yale Envir... - 0 views

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    "With soaring human populations and rapid climate change putting unprecedented pressure on species, conservationists must look to innovative strategies - from creating migratory corridors to preserving biodiversity hotspots - if we are to prevent countless animals and plants from heading to extinction."
Nancy Trautmann

IUCN - A world without biodiversity? - 2 views

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    This free downloadable report addresses the question of how can we expect to tackle poverty and climate change if we don't look after the natural wealth of animals, plants, microorganisms and ecosystems that make our planet inhabitable? The articles look at the scientific, social, economic and cultural case for keeping diversity, showing how biodiversity supports our health and physical security, food production, medical research, livelihoods, tourism, artistic expression and cultural life.
Nancy Trautmann

▶ Science Bulletins: Down and Dirty Biodiversity - YouTube - 0 views

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    "The soils in tundra, grasslands, tropical forests are very different, but they have one thing in common; they all host an astounding diversity of life. Inhabiting these underground worlds are millions of species, which play vital roles in maintaining soil health and preserving the balance of their ecosystems. A new study shows that biodiversity underground is much greater than previously thought, with a direct relationship to life on the surface. "
Courtney Wilson

Biodiversity Hotspots - 0 views

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    Life on Earth faces a crisis of historical and planetary proportions. Unsustainable consumption in many northern countries and crushing poverty in the tropics are destroying wild nature. Biodiversity is besieged.
Courtney Wilson

What Are Species Worth? Putting a Price on Biodiversity by Richard Conniff : Yale Envir... - 1 views

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    When officials gather for an international summit on biodiversity next month, they might look to remind the world why species matter to humans: for producing oxygen, finding new drugs, making agricultural crops more productive, and something far less tangible - a sense of wonder.
Nancy Trautmann

Biodiversity video - 1 views

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    A 2.4 minute video that defines biodiversity, created by Vancouver Film School students
Nancy Trautmann

NSF News - Biodiversity Loss: Detrimental to Your Health - 3 views

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    Plant and animal extinctions are detrimental to your health. That's the conclusion of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Nature by scientists who studied the link between biodiversity and infectious diseases. Species loss in ecosystems such as forests and fields results in increases in pathogens, or disease-causing organisms, the researchers found.
Nancy Trautmann

Students Exploring the World's Habitats - 0 views

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    HabitatNet is a global biodiversity monitoring project developed by NH science teacher, Dan Bisaccio. He and his students are actively involved with the Smithsonian Institution's Monitoring & Assessment Biodiversity Project. In January of 2005, HabitatNet/Souhegan High School with the Smithsonian Institution, Amigos de Sian Ka´an UNESCO Bio-Reserve and El Eden Ecological Reserve hosted the First International Earth Summit for Youth on Global Biodiversity. Students and teachers from the United States, France, India, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands and Mexico participated in the event.
Nancy Trautmann

NSF News - Precedent-Setting Evidence of the Benefits of Biodiversity - US National Sci... - 0 views

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    A new study published in Nature reveals how biodiversity helps remove excess levels of nutrients that commonly degrade water quality in streams. As the # of species of algae in a stream increases, their greater their geographical distribution and water cleaning capacity.
Nancy Trautmann

Road building spree hurts Amazon birds - 0 views

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    "The most interesting finding from the study was that roads impact biodiversity independently of deforestation, via more cryptic forms of disturbance. These disturbances include reduction in habitat quality, increased risk of forest fires, and, perhaps most importantly, the facilitation of human access to undisturbed lands, increasing the potential for illegal logging, poaching, and colonization. "
Nancy Trautmann

Biodiversity in the Age of Humans: HHMI Lectures on Science - 0 views

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    Lecture 1: Learning from Past Extinctions Lecture 2: Humans, Biodiversity, and Habitat Loss Lecture 3: Rescuing Species Lecture 4: Extreme Life of the Sea Lecture 5: Ocean Species Respond to Climate Change Lecture 6: Dodging Extinction
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