• The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to formally separate the Mexican gray wolf from other wolf populations in the United States and list it as either an endangered subspecies or a 'distinct population segment. (commondreams.org)
  • At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. (commondreams.org)
  • Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. (commondreams.org)
  • The Center for Biological Diversity and Thomas Bachand filed suit today against the U.S. Department of State to obtain information on the route of the Keystone XL Pipeline, as well as contracts and correspondence with private consultants involved. (commondreams.org)
  • This month, SELC is co-hosting our legal professionals happy hour with the Center for Biological Diversity ! (theselc.org)
  • At the Center for Biological Diversity, they believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature. (theselc.org)
  • We have shown how natural selection may harness computation and how algorithmic dynamics can explain aspects of biological evolution and , such as speed of convergence, natural mass extinctions and diversity explosions, among others. (algorithmicdynamics.net)
  • The Center for Biological Diversity is offering free ringtones . (pawsacrossthenation.org)
  • External ecological interactions and intrinsic biological parameters affect evolutionary pathways and animal diversity. (nature.com)
  • These natural habitats surveys are meant to inform ecologically-sustainable development in the Basin, and safeguard Malawi's biological diversity. (brucebyersconsulting.com)
  • There is a growing understanding that biological diversity is a worldwide asset of enormous importance to current and future generations. (socialworkin.com)
  • Biological diversity, often known as biodiversity, refers to the diversity of all species on Earth. (socialworkin.com)
  • Ecosystem diversity which is the variety of habitats, biological communities and ecological processes that occur in the biosphere. (socialworkin.com)
  • In November 1988, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organised the Ad-Hoc Working Group of Experts on Biological Diversity to investigate the need for a worldwide biological diversity agreement. (socialworkin.com)
  • Soon after, in May 1989, it established the Ad Hoc Working Group of Technical and Legal Experts to draught an international legal instrument for biological diversity protection and sustainable use. (socialworkin.com)
  • The increased dedication of the international community to sustainable development served as the impetus for the Convention on Biological Diversity. (socialworkin.com)
  • The Convention on Biological Diversity is arguably the broadest international accord ever to be ratified. (socialworkin.com)
  • Wolves are too imperiled and ecologically important to be cruelly trapped or gunned down for sport," said Collette Adkins, Carnivore Conservation Director at the Center for Biological Diversity . (earthjustice.org)
  • The variety of life on Earth, its biological diversity is commonly referred to as biodiversity. (globalissues.org)
  • Almost all cultures have their roots in our biological diversity in some way or form. (globalissues.org)
  • magazine also explains that genetic diversity helps to prevent the chances of extinction in the wild (and claims to have shown proof of this). (globalissues.org)
  • Human-caused species extinction continues at an alarming rate today. (socialworkin.com)
  • Knowledge on these factors may help to predict and mitigate extinctions risks and thus to better protect biodiversity. (nrm.se)
  • Biodiversity constitutes the web of life, of which humans are an intrinsic part and completely reliant. (socialworkin.com)
  • For the last two years, DuBose has been measuring the intrinsic sensitivity of species to climate change - a key determinant of extinction vulnerability - in 90 species of anurans, commonly known as frogs and toads. (international-animalhealth.com)
  • Extinction risk, however, is not randomly distributed among species but depends on intrinsic (i.e. life history traits) and extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat destruction). (nrm.se)
  • Second, we will model extinction risk based on both the species biological and ecological traits and the main threats (extrinsic traits) using a range of analytical techniques, including machine learning. (nrm.se)
  • Combined extrinsic (geological) and intrinsic (biological) factors probably drove the biodiversifications and radiations, and the appearance and disappearance of marine habitats have to be analysed in the frame of changing palaeogeography, palaeoclimate and sea-water chemistry. (news-oceanacidification-icc.org)
  • This paper presents a fuzzy expert system that integrates life history and ecological characteristics of marine fishes to estimate their intrinsic vulnerability to fishing. (uea.ac.uk)
  • We extract heuristic rules (expressed in IF-THEN clauses) from published literature describing known relationships between biological characteristics and vulnerability. (uea.ac.uk)
  • The higher extinction risk for larger species could result from body size influencing vulnerability to different human activities, such as killing, habitat destruction and fragmentation, and the small size of natural reserves. (scielo.br)
  • Our findings indicate that mitochondrial allostatic load contributes to BD, suggesting mitochondria represent a potential biological intersection point that could contribute to impaired cellular resilience and increased vulnerability to stress and mood episodes. (bvsalud.org)
  • This paper argues that some of the strong beliefs held by humans have deep biological roots in our evolutionary past, and the neuronal pathways and structures that support them can be found in other species. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reproductive and ecological traits may affect extinction risks of bryophytes. (nrm.se)
  • Several biological, physiological and ecological traits may thus be involved ( Fig. 1 ), although we still know little about the mechanisms underlying the complex nature of range shifts 16 . (nature.com)
  • This workshop will interrogate and explore alternate imaginings of law, governance and ultimately new critical pathways and possibilities to challenge Environmental Law's extinction problem. (edu.au)
  • The introduction of some flexibility in the way conservation targets are established could contribute to reaching a middle ground where biological concerns are integrated with economic demands from the fishing sector. (nature.com)
  • Biological Conservation , 124 (1), 97-111. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Because extinctions are not random across taxa, it is important for conservation biologists to identify the traits that make some species more vulnerable. (scielo.br)
  • Because mite population growth and extinction are so closely tied to rare host genotypes, to conserve such species we must preserve rare host genotypes, which would represent a major challenge to current conservation practices that target species rather than genotypes. (nau.edu)
  • McIntyre, PJ & Whitham, TG 2003, ' Plant genotype affects long-term herbivore population dynamics and extinction: Conservation implications ', Ecology , vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 311-322. (nau.edu)
  • Is extinction risk of European bryophyte species predictable by species traits? (nrm.se)
  • We will first compile species-specific traits (intrinsic traits) from the literature that are relevant to extinction risks, for example dispersal, other reproductive or habitat characteristics. (nrm.se)
  • In this study we examined the relationship of body size, reproductive output, longevity, and extinction risk for carnivores occurring in Brazil. (scielo.br)
  • I. Biological species are defined by reproductive isolation. (easynotecards.com)
  • The decision to remove critical protections for still-recovering gray wolves is dangerously short-sighted, especially in the face of an extinction crisis. (earthjustice.org)
  • We have shown that algorithmic probability may explain phenomenology associated to biological evolution, in particular accelerating convergence rates, promoting memory and producing modularity reminiscent of genetic code, and making massive extinctions a mechanism of evolution and thus potentially providing an intrinsic explanation for them (see J30). (algorithmicdynamics.net)
  • It is a major advancement in the preservation of biological variety, the sustainable use of its constituent parts, and the just and equal distribution of the advantages brought about by the utilisation of genetic resources. (socialworkin.com)
  • Working memory, intrinsic motivation, personality, attitude, values, and interests, and issues in modern psychology are a few topics that are questioned frequently, and an aspirant must be completely knowledgeable on them to secure these marks. (vajiramandravi.com)
  • The motivation to join a CS project is mostly intrinsic and CS is a good tool to engage people during difficult times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, giving participants the feeling of doing something useful. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • On the negative side, Hursthouse apparently links virtues to the survival of the species - as if species survival has intrinsic value. (blogspot.com)
  • Red Lists give objective information on the extinction risk of species. (nrm.se)
  • However, evaluation of extinction risk using conventional methods is difficult for the majority of fish species because the population data normally required by such methods are unavailable. (uea.ac.uk)
  • We used generalized linear models analyses on phylogenetically independent contrasts to test the effect of body size alone, and the combined effect of body size, litter size and longevity on extinction risk. (scielo.br)
  • Body size appeared in the two best models according to the selection criteria (AIC), and it was the most plausible bionomic variable associated with extinction risk. (scielo.br)
  • Cohen, who is Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales replied, "The earth is about 6 billion years old and in Australia we've got some of the oldest rocks, just over 4 billion years. (creation.com)
  • including issues of biological invasions, eutrophication, impacts of water extraction and pollution. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The world is experiencing the 6 th mass extinction event, in reference to the other five major extinctions known in Earth history, of which the 5 th is best-known for the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. (nature.com)
  • The biological resources of the Earth are critical to humanity's economic and social growth. (socialworkin.com)
  • By listening carefully (looking, tasting, feeling, hearing) we should be able to pick up the right signals and build on them to work towards a more harmonious structure that does justice to the intrinsic values of the earth. (sgnlr.com)
  • Following the Cambrian Explosion and the appearance in the fossil record of most animal phyla associated with a range of new body plans, the Ordovician and Silurian periods witnessed three subsequent major biotic events: the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, the end-Ordovician extinction (the first animal extinction and second largest of the five mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic), and the Early Silurian post-extinction recovery. (news-oceanacidification-icc.org)
  • As we confront the 6th Mass Extinction, we must work to defend every living component to maintain nature's complex and delicate balance. (earthjustice.org)
  • Low gall densities on parental trees resulted in high annual extinction rates (mean = 62%) for mite populations on individual parental trees, in contrast to low annual extinction rates (mean = 7%) for mite populations on hybrid trees. (nau.edu)
  • We detected significant differences in gall population growth rates (intrinsic rate of increase, r) among hybrid genotypes across four years of study, ranging from r = 0 to r = 1.5, demonstrating that plant genotype influences a fundamental component of population dynamics. (nau.edu)
  • We argue that plant genotype should also impact metapopulation dynamics, because plant genotype affected the number of available colonists and directly affected mite extinction rates. (nau.edu)
  • This interdisciplinary workshop will encourage wide ranging reflection and re-imagining of both the context and specifics of environmental law relating to ideas of loss and the extinction of living things. (edu.au)
  • The subject of extinction explicitly confronts law and governance with an opportunity to interrogate and challenge its foundations, structural dispositions and why and whether it has to worry about loss at all. (edu.au)
  • Even if women do better on average, the greater variability in men might make their extinction a notable loss to society at large (assuming the benefit of having more geniuses outweighs the costs of all those delinquents). (philosophyetc.net)
  • In addition, the proteins that these genes encode can be used to protect other biological material --like bacteria , yeast , and certain enzymes --from desiccation. (tikalon.com)
  • A likely better alternative for choosing areas to be protected is to spatially identify ecological and/or biological criteria that could help replenish a variety of relevant species simultaneously. (nature.com)
  • the manipulation and reprogramming of dynamical systems at the level of generative models applied both to synthetic and biological relevant examples ([see J17, P11, J4, online and online ]. (algorithmicdynamics.net)
  • Biological species are the model used for grouping extinct forms of life. (easynotecards.com)
  • Through the lenses of evolution, the elucidation of the history of life allows us to delve into the structure and explore functioning of biological entities. (cadmusjournal.org)
  • As if the main differences between the quality of life for men and women can be encapsulated in these biological "advantages" that women supposedly enjoy! (philosophyetc.net)
  • Biological variety is the earth's natural capital, influencing all life. (socialworkin.com)
  • Looking into past extinction or radiation events that had no anthropogenic impact is a way of disentangling the factors that impacted the evolution of the studied group. (nature.com)
  • Extinction raises fundamental questions for environmental law and legal studies. (edu.au)
  • In attempting to address these challenges, legal responses to extinction tend to oscillate between nostalgia and hubris. (edu.au)
  • Participants do not have specific expectations regarding the project beyond proper management and coordination, but have an intrinsic sense of working for a greater good. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • QUT Faculty of Law and the Macquarie Law School will co-host this online event on extinction and the role and significance of law, norms, and institutions. (edu.au)
  • Whilst environmental law can contribute to extinction it also has the potential to creatively mobilise and bring together ideas and forces for governance. (edu.au)
  • Keynote Talk delivered by Prof. Jesper Tegnér presenting our methods and theories at the Emerging Topics in Biological Networks and Systems Biology Symposium at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), in Uppsala, Sweden, 9-11 October, 2017. (algorithmicdynamics.net)
  • and hubris in thinking that we can invent nature or use technology to engineer de-extinction on the other. (edu.au)
  • Virginia Tech biological sciences postdoctoral researcher Traci DuBose wants to ensure no frogs or toads land below conservationists' radar. (international-animalhealth.com)