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“What Matters Is Species Richness”—High School Students’ Understanding of the Components of Biodiversity
(Springer, 2018-09)
The definition of biodiversity stated by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992 was conceived as occurring on three different organizational levels: genetic, species, and ecosystems. However, current understanding ...
Tradiciones alimentarias: bienestar de las personas y del ambiente
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012)
Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being.
(Plos, 2006-08)
The diversity of life on Earth is dramatically affected by Human alterations of ecosystems. Compelling evidence now shows that the reverse is also true: biodiversity in the broad snsse affects the properties of ecosystem ...
Agroecological strategies to safeguard insect pollinators in biodiversity hotspots: Chile as a case study
(MDPI, 2021)
Industrial agriculture (IA) has been recognized among the main drivers of biodiversity loss, climate change, and native pollinator decline. Here we summarize the known negative effects of IA on pollinator biodiversity and ...
Traversing the food-biodiversity nexus towards coexistence by manipulating social-ecological system parameters
(Wiley, 2020)
Agroecological landscapes have the potential to simultaneously meet food security and biodiversity conservation goals but are hindered by emerging biodiversity conflicts. Here, we opt to view the social-ecological factors ...
Effects of food quality on growth and biochemical composition of a calanoid copepod, Argyrodiaptomus furcatus, and its importance as a natural food source for larvae of two tropical fishes
(2001-06-15)
Growth, reproduction and biochemical composition were analyzed for the copepod Argyrodiaptomus furcatus fed on the alga Ankistrodesmus gracilis grown in different media. The ingestion of this copepod by larvae of two species ...
Effects of food quality on growth and biochemical composition of a calanoid copepod, Argyrodiaptomus furcatus, and its importance as a natural food source for larvae of two tropical fishes
(2001-06-15)
Growth, reproduction and biochemical composition were analyzed for the copepod Argyrodiaptomus furcatus fed on the alga Ankistrodesmus gracilis grown in different media. The ingestion of this copepod by larvae of two species ...
The more polluted the environment, the more important biodiversity is for food web stability
(Nordic Society Oikos, 2013)
Human
activities have led to massive influxes of pollutants, degrading the habitat of species and simplifying their biodiversity.
However, the interaction between food web complexity, pollution and stability is still ...
Gluten-Free Autochthonous Foodstuff (South America and Other Countries)
(OmniaScience, 2015)