biodiversity

Much of the land identified as important for biodiversity also stores a lot of carbon, underlining the connection between conservation and climate goals.

Moran says that it will be important to continue analyzing how different treatments affect factors like fire behavior and biodiversity.

Those limitations include the difficulty of agreeing on what protection actually means, given that countries vary greatly in their needs, resources and priorities for preserving biodiversity.

“Ecological communities are more resilient when there’s more biodiversity,” Belleny says.

She focuses on biodiversity — making sure there’s a wide variety of species in a natural area.

Oil palms are tropical trees and thrive in rainforests, some of the regions on Earth with the highest biodiversity.

The forests, with their mind-boggling biodiversity, are a staggering 10,000 times older than those of North America and Europe.

Now the Endangered Species Act (which passed the House 355-4 in 1973) enshrines a national commitment to biodiversity.

“It is an opportunity to show off our extraordinary biodiversity resources in this country,” says Farinetti.

This book is dense with both thought and fact, but no one will mistake it for an article in the journal Biodiversity.