1) Biodiversity was the buzzword of the Rio Earth Summit.

2) The newcomers can pose a threat to biodiversity by altering ecosystems.

3) There is a vast untapped genetic and metabolic biodiversity in nature that can also be harnessed.

4) Both scientific and commercial biodiversity prospectors should pay fees, as mineral prospectors do.

5) They are part of the biodiversity of which we, as human bipeds, are also part.

6) Promote efforts in biodiversity and other positive environmental impacts.

7) Abstract: Urban biodiversity is related to urban sustainable development.

8) Abstract: Species diversity is an important part of biodiversity.

9) Great progress has been made in protection of biodiversity.

10) The biodiversity and the threats from exotic, invasive species.

11) The trends of monoculture forests leads to biodiversity loss and ecosystem service decrease.

12) If important areas of biodiversity are protected sufficiently, then sustainable tourist development and the natural beauty of Tenerife can exist side by side.

13) Biodiversity is the diversity of genes, species and eco-systems that occupy the earth.

14) The mining project threatens one of the world's richest areas of biodiversity.

15) Their commitment was only to maintain the extent of forests, not their biodiversity.

16) The scientists reassigned to the survey possess expertise in areas such as population dynamics, physiology, animal behavior, habitats and biodiversity.

17) The main aim of the meeting was to discuss how to persuade countries to create their own national strategies for biodiversity protection.

18) New ways of working will take taxonomy into the fast lane, providing information on species, the components of biodiversity.

19) This is essential if the scientific quality of studies of biodiversity at the ecosystem and genetic level is not to be compromised.

20) They argue that this will seriously undermine the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol developed under the Convention on Biodiversity.

21) And as it has had to grapple with challenges to the whole globe, such as climate change, Aids and biodiversity.

22) Instead they should restrict access to plants, control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity.

23) It is covered with primary rainforest that rivals the biodiversity of the Amazon.

24) MEXICO CITY - Wild cotton in Mexico has been contaminated with genetically modified material, posing a risk to biodiversity, experts say.

25) A new species of Nembrotha nudibranch (also known as a sea slug) that was discovered during the California Academy of Sciences' 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition.

26) Microorganisms are an important group of organism mainly catabolic metabolism,[http:///biodiversity.html] which display extreme abundance in biodiversity.

27) The existing problems were identified, and precaution strategies for future biodiversity protection and sustainable development of the regio...

28) Red squirrel is important economic animals of the northeast forest zone in China, has important role for maintaining the biodiversity and the stability of this area forest ecosystem.

29) The types of vegetation and the changes of the biodiversity were studied by investigating the species diversity of rubber forest in different age class.

30) Dams have also taken a huge toll on China's biodiversity, causing fisheries to suffer and driving charismatic species such as the Yangtze River Dolphin to extinction.

31) Niche differentiation is evident from the nonrandom spatial distributions along microenvironmental gradients and plays an important role in sustaining high biodiversity.

32) Microorganisms are an important group of organism ma inly performing catabolic metabolism, which display extreme abundance in biodiversity.

33) The common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) and mountain hare are also under threat despite efforts to arrest their decline through nationwide biodiversity action plans.

34) Botanists at the University of Bonn have now taken a major step in this direction with the publication, in the Journal of Biogeography, of a world map of plant biodiversity.

35) The possibilities and risks by using biodiversity (particularly vegetational diversity) as a long term strategy to control pest insects were proposed.

36) What struck me was his comment that much of the alleged work protecting Canada's biodiversity was being done by-- get this -- "environmental philanthropists".

37) A butterfly rests on a leaf at the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) in Santo Domingo de Heredia.

38) Because the region sits at the biogeographical crossroads of two continental plates, it contains a wide range of biodiversity and landscapes from both worlds.

39) The area also represents a significant habitat for biodiversity conservation.

40) Such theories as plant distribution theory, ecological succession theory, biodiversity theory and landscape structure theory on which urban forest building is based are discussed.

41) He focuses on river basin biodiversity and local livelihoods throughout the Greater Himalaya.

42) They begin to learn about the compost heap, and about biodiversity, what’s ripe and what’s not ripe.

43) All of the animals in the arctic are dependent on the sea ice. If you lose the sea ice it's like cutting down the rain forest. You can't have all of the biodiversity without the life-support system.

44) The alien plants increased plant biodiversity and benefited the local society and economy but some of ruderal species resulted in evident ecol...

45) Biologists around the world are thus bootstrapping themselves out of despair and seizing the occasion to explain biodiversity and why it matters.

46) But a lot of river revetment is spent to hard and channelization currently, the result causes the river revetment function as biodiversity and ecosystem cross zone loses completely.

47) The results also show that bryophyte life forms in Sangong River Valley are relatively rich, which indicates the biodiversity characteristics of bryophyte in this valley.

48) Zoige wetland is not only the largest plateau peat bog in the world, but also one of biodiversity conservation hotspots in China.

49) But unfortunately, much of Africa's biodiversity remains unexploited for health and economic benefits.

50) Biodiversity is not getting the attention it deserves on the international agenda, says Barry Gardiner.

51) Madre de Dios claims to be the biodiversity capital of the world.

52) Dobson , A . P . 1996 . Conservation and Biodiversity . New York : Scientific American Library: Dist. by W . H . Freeman , USA.

53) Hence biodiversity reduces economic risk and builds up economic stability, a very important factor for the livelihood of small farmer households who have week coping ability with risks.

54) To control and eradicate the exotic and invasive plant Spartina alterniflora is important and necessary for biodiversity conservation management.

55) The study results are helpful to identify resource use traits and niche differentiation of sympatric species and to the biodiversity conservation of a region.

56) Is this factor responsible for the greater part of biodiversity?

57) Abstract: The forest - steppe ecotone in northern Hebei and eastern Inner Mongolia is characterized by high biodiversity.

58) The service aspects of biodiversity must be understood,[] and market mechanisms put in place to include these very real factors in both policy and business decisions.

59) To an ecologist, this looks like an ecosystem whose biodiversity has expanded radically.

60) Shrubby community is the most important factor to maintain the function of ecosystem. It is the keystone for the biodiversity conservation in the region.

61) Looking at present-day biodiversity patterns in 4000 bivalve species, they have found no relationship between habitable area - in this case, continental shelf - and the number of bivalve species.

62) The rainforests of Brazil's Atlantic coast are the world's richest in terms of biodiversity.

63) It indicated that the snow disaster brought a destructive impact on the Pieridae biodiversity in Nanling National Nature Reserve.

64) Morphometric analysis of angles of forewing veins might be a useful tool for biodiversity studies of honeybees and other bees.

65) The overexploitation of land for agricultural gain can have long-term negative effects on the biodiversity of a region.

66) India's rich biodiversity offers scientists a unique resource and the opportunity to understand local environments, audit natural resource management systems and document wildlife.

67) The United Nations Assembly has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity.

68) We are on the verge of a major biodiversity crisis.

69) "Scholes and Biggs' biodiversity intactness index (BII) makes a start in satisfying many requirements and provides a robust, sensitive and meaningful indicator," she said.

70) The influences of climate change on forestry geographic distribution, phenology , biodiversity, forestry structure, and productivity are expounded.

71) If biodiversity can be promoted in a city’s crazy quilt of greenery, the areas could add up, Goddard says.

72) Objective To survey the base-line information of anopheline biodiversity, mosquito population density and seasonal distribution in Donggang, Liaoning.

73) Their enormous decline over the past decade has many scientists worried about biodiversity and the health of the oceans, but in part because of their negative image, many conservation efforts fail.

74) After a sumptuous dinner in the evening, we watched the sixth episode of "Wild China". The show told about the coastal environment and biodiversity of China through the migration route of birds.

75) However, the inning and land use of the tidal flat have caused a decrease in biodiversity along the coast and the reduction of self-adjusting function of the ecosystem in the tidal flat.

76) Butterflies are indicators of the biodiversity of our natural environment.

77) Biodynamics embraces a holistic view of nature: it is by definition organic but it also involves biodiversity and – strangest of all – astronomy.

78) In other words , the tropics do , indeed, act as cradles of biodiversity.

79) The results indicated that enclosure could significantly improve the alpine grassland's vegetation biomass, the coverage, the proportion of graminaceous grass and the biodiversity.

80) Landscape fragmentation is one of the major reasons drastic degression loss of biodiversity over the world.

81) Objective To investigate the biodiversity and fauna of Tachinidae in Songshan National Nature Reserve of Beijing.

82) It took more than 10, 000 years of domestication for humans to create the vast biodiversity in our food supply that we're now watching ebb away.

83) FAITH LAPIDUS: The U. N. report was based, in part, on one hundred ten national reports on action taken to reduce or stop the loss of biodiversity.

84) At the same time, the ineffective management measures and inadequate capacity in marine and coastal biodiversity conservation have exacerbated by the deterioration of the resources.

85) The changes of the land cover will change the climate, biogeochemistry cycle, hydrology and biodiversity on the earth.

86) It concluded that the shrubby vegetation was the keystone for the biodiversity conservation in the region.

86) is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

87) Aves diversity is one of the most important components of the biodiversity.

88) But they nevertheless have a big influence on air quality and human health, greenhouse gas emissions and the Earth’s carbon cycle, and biodiversity.

89) He becomes a theorist of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and biogeography, and one of the patron saints of conservation science.

90) It's a collaboration of the Biodiversity Research Institute in Gorham, Maine, the Great Lakes Commission based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

91) The goal is to protect biodiversity, to provide stability and resilience.

92) Biodiversity includes genetic Biodiversity , species diversity and ecosystem and landscape Biodiversity.

93) The insect currently thought to kill more trees than any other in America is the native mountain pine beetle. And many invaders actually boost biodiversity, not decimate it.

94) While, in suburb Wetland Park planning, the top-drawer ecosystem services are water quality and water supply reservoirs, and biodiversity conservation.

95) Climate change does not just lead to biodiversity loss; causality works the other way around too.

96) Biodiversity underpins life on Earth, and refers to the variety found in biota from genetic make up of plants an animals to cultural diversity.

97) Furthermore, we focused on ecological changes of zooplankton to global warming and several indices such as abundance, biomass, biodiversity and biogeographic boundary are enumerated.

98) The protection of biodiversity has been the focus of current world.

99) This implies that the total biodiversity of the Weddell Sea is enormous.

100) Madagascar Fish Eagle Madagascar is known as the hottest hotspot, both because of its rich biodiversity, and because deforestation and other threats are destroying wildlife on the island.

101) The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.

102) A significant reduction of biodiversity loss — or even a halt of it — can be achieved only if biodiversity conservation is mainstreamed into national and sectoral strategies and action plans.

103) The richness of the Earth's original biodiversity is being attacked.

104) Based on the inquisitional data of sampling sites, the biodiversity of the natural plant community in Aral area is analyzed by adopting diversity index,[] richness index and evenness index.

105) "A country can be revitalised by a gene, " said Xue Dayuan, chief scientist for biodiversity conservation at the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science.

106) With the global focuses on biodiversity and sustainable developments, the needs for biosystematics are becoming bigger and bigger.

107) At the time, more than one hundred ninety countries agreed to reduce or halt biodiversity losses by twenty ten.

108) The current situation and problem of the research of insect biodiversity are analyzed and discussed briefly, as well as current situation of the research of sawfly biodiversity in China.

109) Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly as habitats are destroyed and replaced by monoculture crop systems and invaded by alien species, said the declaration.

110) Investment in biodiversity data management ( BDM ) can only meet 20 % ～30 % requirement.

111) "At this rate, it will take us a thousand years to record all of Earth's biodiversity, which is probably between 15 and 30 million species" said Boeuf.

112) The Carpathian Mountains are an important reservoir for biodiversity, and are Europe's last refuge for large mammals - brown bear, wolf, and lynx.

113) But human populations around PAs may have negative impacts on biodiversity such as illegal hunting, deforestation and mineral extraction.