Biodiversity
(ORDO NEWS) — York University scientists have shown that the restoration of many mammal species and the breeding of new species have increased biodiversity in many European regions. Despite habitat loss and local extinctions, Europe‘s biodiversity has not declined over the past 8,000 years. Literally a few species have been…
(ORDO NEWS) — One of the global environmental problems is the reduction of plant biodiversity, that is, the species richness of ecosystems. A new study has shown that it is determined not by the extinction of individual species, but by the spread of invasive (that is, alien) plants outside their…
(ORDO NEWS) — Area-based conservation targets aimed at stopping and reversing global biodiversity loss are set to form an integral part of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework discussions later this year. An international team of researchers have however found that strictly protecting global land area for conservation could have an…
(ORDO NEWS) — An international research team led by Associate Professor Giovanni Strona from the University of Helsinki has identified a general macroecological mechanism that calls for a reconsideration of global conservation strategies. “To truly understand how global change is affecting natural communities and to identify effective strategies to mitigate…
