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Dempsey, Jessica Anne. "Making markets, making biodiversity : understanding global biodiversity politics." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39284.

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Pricing and market exchange, we are now often told, are the only routes through which biological diversity can be saved. The objective of this dissertation is to examine the material-semiotic processes and networks by which a kind of ‘economized’, and even at times, ‘entrepreneurial nature’ comes to be. I ask: how did biodiversity become entangled in economic rationalities and market calculations? What are the circuits of knowledge and power producing biodiversity in this way? What calculative devices, methodologies and policies are created, or envisioned as necessary to make biodiversity cons

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Lindberg, Mattias. "Responsibility and Biodiversity: Analyzing the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21457.

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Europeiska Unionens strategi för biologisk mångfald 2020, har snart avklarats, och tiden är inne för att bedöma strategins styrkor och svagheter. Allt som nedbrytningen av ekosystem och förlust av biologisk mångfald fortsätter att öka, är betydelsen av den politiska beslutsprocessen och politikers tillvägagångsätt mot ett hållbart utnyttjande av ekosystemtjänster större än någonsin tidigare. Med sex huvudmål och 20 åtgärder för att nå dessa mål, analyserar denna studien innebörden och kontexten av dessa åtgärder för att se hur ansvar i förhållande till tillvägagångssätt har en inverkan på åtgä

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Mackey, Robin L. "Disturbance and biodiversity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ66170.pdf.

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Gotoh, Mari. "Biodiversity in biomembranes." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2006/GOTOH_Mari_2006.pdf.

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Tous les organismes vivant sont fait de cellules qui sont séparés du monde extérieur par une barrière, la membrane cellulaire. Un nombre important de protéine contrôle la fonction cellulaire en interagissant avec les stimuli extracellulaires. Cependant, les fonctions et structures des molécules de la membrane cellulaire tel que les lipides et les sucres ne sont toujours pas entièrement déterminées. Du point de vue de la biodiversité, quelques propriétés des biomembranes ont été étudiées sous deux aspects différents. (1) les phosphates de polyprényles ramifiés Plusieurs composés polyterpanique

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Gotoh, Mari Nakatani Yoichi Matsumoto I. "Biodiversity in biomembranes." Strasbourg : Université Louis Pasteur, 2006. http://eprints-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr:8080/558/01/GOTOH2006.pdf.

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Cousins, Leslie J. "Biodiversity assessment : moving towards an evidence-based index for biodiversity offsetting." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16676/.

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Biodiversity offsetting is a mechanism for providing physical compensation to redress losses to species and habitats caused by development projects. As offsetting becomes more widespread, so has the evolution and development of frameworks, tools and methodological approaches for assessing biodiversity and implementing offsets. In this context and with a specific focus on assessment methodology this research takes a scientific and pragmatic approach to bridge the gap between empirical approaches to biodiversity assessment and the practical, often subjective, methods used by practitioners. Altho

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Goaied, Amna, and Christian Sjöland. "Biodiversity and Business : Multiple Case-Studies on Biodiversity Strategy in Sweden." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160476.

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Biodiversity loss has been stated as one of the greatest risks for the future society according to the World Economic Forum (2018, p. 5). A million species is risking extinction due to current societies’ practices according to a report published during the conduction of this study(Brondizio et al., 2019, p. 3). This situation of biodiversity has led an increasing amount of countries to enforce legislation which requires companies that work with land development to comply with no net loss goal. In Sweden, no such legislation existed with regards to biodiversity. Against this background, a group

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Loiseau, Nicolas. "Influence des propriétés des indices sur l'estimation des composantes de la diversité : application au cas des poissons récifaux." Thesis, Polynésie française, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016POLF0001.

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La biodiversité peut être définie comme "la variabilité des organismes vivants de toute origine, y compris, les écosystèmes terrestres, marins et autres écosystèmes aquatiques et les complexes écologiques dont ils font partie ; cela comprend la diversité au sein des espèces, et entre les espèces et ainsi que celle des écosystèmes" (Convention sur la Diversité Biologique de Rio de Janeiro, 1992 art. 2. Le terme «biodiversité» constitue, à première vue, un concept relativement simple: la biodiversité est la somme de toutes les variations biotiques du niveau des gènes aux écosystèmes (Purvis &amp

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Pilgrim, John D. "Biodiversity management : application of biodiversity data to inform conservation and industry practice." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2016. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701892/.

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This submission presents a small selection of my publications on a theme – the application of biodiversity data to inform both conservation and industry practice. The published work presented here demonstrates my ability to generate new biodiversity data, to interpret how to apply those data to improve conservation outcomes, and to apply the same biodiversity data in different ways to reduce industry impacts. The core biodiversity data I use are related to species’ distributions and conservation status, as direct indicators of their irreplaceability and vulnerability. This thesis comprises fiv

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Pilgrim, John D. "Biodiversity management: application of biodiversity data to inform conservation and industry practice." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2016. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/701892/1/Pilgrim_2016.pdf.

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This submission presents a small selection of my publications on a theme – the application of biodiversity data to inform both conservation and industry practice. The published work presented here demonstrates my ability to generate new biodiversity data, to interpret how to apply those data to improve conservation outcomes, and to apply the same biodiversity data in different ways to reduce industry impacts. The core biodiversity data I use are related to species’ distributions and conservation status, as direct indicators of their irreplaceability and vulnerability. This thesis comprises fi

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Bhatia, Sarika. "Documentation of Biodiversity Impacts (Including Cumulative Biodiversity Impacts) in Environmental Impact Statements." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278173/.

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In the United States, biodiversity impact assessment has historically received little attention. Responding in 1993, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released guidelines on incorporating biodiversity into environmental impact assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The objectives of the study here were to identify the level of documentation of biodiversity impact assessment in sample Environmental Impact Statements (EISs); identify whether in the years following the release of 1993 CEQ guidelines any significant changes have taken place in assessment of biodi

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Lundy, Mathieu Grattan. "Riparian biodiversity in agriculture." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486249.

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The loss of biodiversity is accepted as a vital area of research and habitat destruction due to human activity is a major cause of such biodiversity loss. Agriculture has resulted in widespread modification of the natural landscape. In these highly modified landscapes, however, remnants of semi natural habitat remain, potentially providing key refugia for biodiversity. Riparian areas are potentially relatively species rich zones, due to the ecotone of habitats ranging from fully terrestrial to aquatic. The present research investigated response patterns of species diversity in riparian environ

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Prendergast, John Richard. "Biodiversity hotspots in Britain." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300123.

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Jetz, W. "Biodiversity of African birds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393561.

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Lyashevska, O. "Quantifying biodiversity for valuation." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557664.

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Biodiversity, arising at multiple levels, is known as a multi-dimensional and complex concept, but is also known to have a rather loose definition. Imprecise definitions are not very suitable for objective quantification or the rigour of economic valuation. Therefore, to construct a more substantial definition of value for biodiversity, a theoretical argument aiming to link biodiversity and functional (meaningful) information needs to be developed. A working hypothesis is that biodiversity is a measure of the total difference within a biological system, which can be summarised in terms of the

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Chan, Tin-yau, and 陳天佑. "Hong Kong biodiversity museum." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198194X.

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Baruti, Abdala Yussufu. "Biodiversity and ecosystem services." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8082.

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Chan, Tin-yau. "Hong Kong biodiversity museum." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25944861.

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Cascini, Manuela. "Evolution of marsupial biodiversity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197697/1/Manuela_Cascini_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis explored the evolutionary trajectory of marsupials, focusing primarily on the Australasian marsupial fauna, and used a phylogenetic inference approach that combines molecular, ecological and fossil data sets. A first study provided the most complete and accurate (to-date) species-level marsupial phylogeny by using the most taxonomically complete set of nuclear and mitochondrial loci. In a second study, DNA and fossils from extinct and modern taxa were used to infer the evolution of macropods. A third project inferred the most complete (to-date) time-calibrated phylogeny of Diprotod

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Figuerola, Balañá Blanca. "Biodiversity and Chemical ecology in Antarctic bryozoans = Biodiversitat i ecologia química de briozous antàrtics." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129165.

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The current thesis covers two important and poorly known aspects of Antarctic bryozoans: biodiversity and chemical ecology. The comparative analyses of diversity carried out here (Chapters 1 and 2) between Antarctica and the last separated fragments of Gondwana support the hypothesis of the sequential separation of Gondwana. We discuss that the high number of species from the Argentine Patagonian (AP) region shared with Antarctica found in our study question the real extent of Antarctic isolation for cheilostome bryozoans. The presence of shared common bryozoan species between these two region

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Malviya, Shruti. "Global Diatom Biodiversity : An Assessment Using Metabarcoding Approach." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112075/document.

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Les diatomées (Stramenopiles, Bacillariophyceae) jouent un rôle important sur le plan écologique et sont l'un des groupes phytoplanctoniques les plus divers, avec environ 1800 espèces planctoniques estimées. Bien que largement étudiées, leurs modèles de diversité et de distribution biogéographique ne sont pas bien connus. L'avènement du séquençage de l'ADN à haut débit a révolutionné les études de biodiversité moléculaire facilitant la compréhension de la biogéographie, de la structure des communautés et des processus écologiques. Les deux principaux objectifs de cette thèse sont (1) d'enquête

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Warren-Thomas, Eleanor. "Rubber plantations in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot : habitat loss, biodiversity and economics." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/66569/.

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Natural rubber is in high demand for the manufacture of tyres, and rubber plantations are expanding globally. Southeast Asia is the epicentre of rubber cultivation, where deforestation to make way for rubber has been occurring for decades. This process has caused substantial biodiversity loss and carbon emissions. Expansion has recently shifted northwards into mainland Southeast Asia (the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot) due to the development of hardier rubber varieties that can survive longer dry seasons and cooler climates. The northward shift has been exacerbated by replacement of rubber w

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Farré, Foix Marc. "Morphological structure and biodiversity in fish assemblages = Estructura morfològica i biodiversitat en comunitats de peixos." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398120.

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The study of morphology of organisms has become a widely extended scientific discipline since the beginning of the 20th century, when the scientific community began to establish direct relationships between the anatomical characteristics of organisms and their adaptations and biological strategies. The study of morphological variability allowed determining and understanding the ecological and functional roles of species within the ecosystems where they inhabit. According to this ecomorphological current, ecologists promptly perceived that morphology of species were essential to address many as

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Llarena, Hernandez Régulo Carlos. "Biologie, caractérisation chimique et activités antioxydantes du champignon comestible et médicinal Agaricus subrufescens." Thesis, Pau, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PAUU3008/document.

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Récemment, Agaricus subrufescens est devenu un champignon d’intérêt de par ses propriétés médicinales. Sa production commerciale s’est développée dans des pays tropicaux à partir de matériaux locaux. Cependant, les données disponibles dans la littérature ne concernent que des cultivars qui sont génétiquement similaires. Notre étude sur un ensemble de cultivars et de souches sauvages a conduit à une meilleure connaissance de la biologie de l’espèce. Contrairement aux cultivars, les souches sauvages présentent un haut niveau de polymorphisme génétique. Une variabilité phénotypique élevée a été m

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Pearch, Malcolm J. "Small mammal biodiversity in Nepal." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted: no access until June 2, 2014, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26193.

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Coristine, Laura Elizabeth. "Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35245.

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Conservation is plagued by the issue of prioritization - what to conserve and where to conserve it - which relies on identification and assessment of risks. In this body of work, I identify some of the risks related to climate change impacts on biodiversity, as well as potential solutions. Climate changes are underway across nearly all terrestrial areas and will continue in response to greenhouse gas emissions over centuries. Other extinction drivers, such as habitat loss due to urbanization, commonly operate over localized areas. Urbanization contributes, at most, less than 2% of the total

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Roche, David. "Biodiversity: Its Measurement and Metaphysics." University of Sydney. Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/819.

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Biodiversity is a concept that plays a key role in both scientific theories such as the species-area law and conservation politics. Currently, however, little agreement exists on how biodiversity should be defined, let alone measured. This has led to suggestions that biodiversity is not a metaphysically robust concept, with major implications for its usefulness in formulating scientific theories and making conservation decisions. A general discussion of biodiversity is presented, highlighting its application both in scientific and conservation contexts, its relationship with environmental e

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Hartmann, Klaas. "Biodiversity conservation and evolutionary models." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1776.

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Biodiversity conservation requires a framework for prioritising limited resources to the many endangered species. One such framework that has seen much attention and is considered extensively in this thesis, is the Noah's Ark Problem (NAP). The NAP combines a biodiversity measure (Phylogenetic Diversity; PD) with species survival probabilities and conservation costs. The aim of the NAP is to allocate the limited conservation resources such that the future expected PD is maximised. Obtaining optimal solutions to the NAP is a computationally complex problem to which several efficient algorithms

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Howat, Darlene Rose. "Enhancing biodiversity on reclaimed lands." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0004/MQ28947.pdf.

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Echeverria, Hugo. "Biodiversity conservation and state sovereignty." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99135.

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This thesis examines the influence of contemporary approaches to biodiversity conservation on conceptions of state sovereignty over natural resources. Traditional approaches to state sovereignty have emphasized the right of states to exploit natural resources. Contemporary approaches to biodiversity conservation, however, have given rise to a more flexible and dynamic understanding of state sovereignty over natural resources: one encompassing sovereign rights of exploitation along with corresponding conservation responsibilities. Founded upon this premise, the thesis focuses on the emergence o

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Ieraci, Luciano A. "Spatial intermittency, biodiversity, and multifractals." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33411.

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Ecosystems involve highly non-linear interactions between species and their environments over wide ranges of scales. These interactions give rise to population number densities that are highly intermittent in both space and time. The simplest hypothesis about the variability of individual density fields is that they are scale invariant in space-time. For some cases, such as plankton, this has been demonstrated empirically. In addition, at a fixed space-time location there is a well-established information theory approach for treating the density statistics for different species. In this "speci

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蔡劍鷹 and Kim-ying Choi. "Biodiversity publishing in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41549399.

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Acheampong, Isaac. "Urban biodiversity; a global perspective." Thesis, KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-171821.

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A majority of the world’s cities are situated in or near areas of high biodiversity. Rise in global urban population resulting in rapid urban expansions (larger cities) is a threat to urban biodiversity, which has implications for the ecological health and general well being of humans. The study exploits consistent global land use data to compare 102 cities across the globe on a measure of urban biodiversity, within 15 km and 30 km from the approximate centres of the cities. Cities with high population and higher percentage of land use dedicated to artificial infrastructure recorded lower perc

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Cristancho-Pinilla, Edwin Arvey. "Benefitting from biodiversity-based innovation." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/72011/.

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This thesis argues for the need for a more comprehensive discussion of biodiversity use in relation to enhancing benefits of this use for biodiverse countries and promoting more equitable sharing of these benefits. The findings from this doctoral research reveal that biodiversity-based innovation is a social shaping process that has resulted in large benefits. The cumulative capability to use species from biodiversity gives meanings that contribute to the species shaping process, with organisations and institutional changes providing direction and increasing the rate of the shaping process. In

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Gudde, Renska Marleen. "Revealing the routes to biodiversity." Thesis, University of Reading, 2015. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/69833/.

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Holland, Kelly John. "Effects on Boston's Urban Biodiversity." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/377.

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Thesis advisor: David Krauss<br>In an attempt to better understand the biodiversity of an urban ecosystem, we have conducted plant and bird biodiversity assessments of 10 sites in the Greater Boston area from September 2002-April 2003. These sites have been identified by the Urban Ecology Institute as important green areas through the Natural Cities Program. The purpose of this program is to create a greater body of knowledge of urban green spaces and the greater urban ecosystem of Boston. Our objective was to quantify plant and bird biodiversity by focusing on species richness. We then compar

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Sanderson, James Stuart. "Physical aspects of starch biodiversity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619816.

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Rominger, Andrew Rominger. "The Statistical Mechanics of Biodiversity." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10150924.

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<p> Since at least the time of Darwin biologists have searched for a simple set of universal governing mechanisms that dictate the dynamics of biodiversity. While much progress has been made in understanding system-specific processes and in documenting the context-dependent roles of such mechanisms as competition and facilitation, we still lack a universal governing rule set. The goal of understanding and predicting biodiversity dynamics comes at a critical moment when human systems are disrupting those very dynamics. In this thesis I approach this long-standing problem with the hypothesis tha

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Taber, Peter Addison, and Peter Addison Taber. "Rational Enchantment: Instituting Ecuadorian Biodiversity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625380.

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An increasing concern for biodiversity loss transformed politics and society in Ecuador beginning in the late 1980s. Amidst a proliferation of expert work to gain new knowledge of what biodiversity existed where in order to curb species extinctions, both the state of biological science and the way that Ecuador was governed were remade. To examine the institution of biodiversity and its contemporary consequences in Ecuador, this dissertation draws on ethnography with and archival research on a community of botanists connected with Ecuador's National Herbarium. It begins by examining the special

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Allan, Eric. "Herbivore interactions and grassland biodiversity." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11256.

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Roche, D. M. "Biodiversity its measurement and metaphysics /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/819.

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Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Sydney, 2002.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 24, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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Choi, Kim-ying. "Biodiversity publishing in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41549399.

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Hobbs, Sarah Jennifer. "Community participation in biodiversity monitoring." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2377/.

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The involvement of communities with wildlife is increasing on a global scale. Participatory approaches differ across the world, from natural resource management, environmental quality monitoring, to species and habitat data gathered through citizen science programmes. The personal and community benefits of engaging with nature are acknowledged through ongoing research, particularly in terms of health and wellbeing, yet simultaneously people are becoming increasingly distanced from nature due to factors such as urbanisation. In order to maximise the benefits associated with participatory initia

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Clement, Sarah. "Institutions, misfits, and biodiversity conservation." Thesis, Clement, Sarah (2015) Institutions, misfits, and biodiversity conservation. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29098/.

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Institutions have a critical role to play in global efforts to halt biodiversity decline, but they need to be fit-for-purpose. Adaptive governance has been positioned as a model to improve fit, as it endorses decision-making institutions that foster learning, experimentation, and responsiveness to local conditions; all of which are necessary to cope with the inherent uncertainty and complexity of biodiversity conservation. Implementing adaptive governance in practice has been slow; however, as its recommendations are often at odds with the structure and function of current institutional arrang

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Sporne, Ilva. "Institutional Dimension of Biodiversity Conservation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367591.

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This thesis makes a contribution to the growing body of literature examining the institutional dimension of human-environment interactions. It has been guided by an interest in the problem of loss of terrestrial biodiversity in the state of Queensland, Australia and its institutional determinants. The study explored two research questions: • How to conceptualise and evaluate the effectiveness of institutions contributing to the resolution of environmental problems? • How effective is the Queensland land use planning and development assessment system in achieving biodiversity protection outcome

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Hermansson, Cecilia. "Communicating Biodiversity Offsetting in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-362824.

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At a time when biodiversity is declining, there needs to be a shift in how development projects take responsibility for lost natural values. Such a change is provided by biodiversity offsetting which give project owners an opportunity to compensate for declines in natural quality. However, offsetting for biodiversity costs money and therefore a clear business case is needed. Like all types of Corporate Sustainable Responsibility (CSR) work the expected competitive advantages are dependent on the stakeholders’ knowledge of the CSR measures. The aim of this study was therefore to explain how eco

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Kumphakarm, Ratchaneewan. "Statistical methods for biodiversity assessment." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/60557/.

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This thesis focuses on statistical methods for estimating the number of species which is a natural index for measuring biodiversity. Both parametric and nonparametric approaches are investigated for this problem. Species abundance models including homogeneous and heterogeneous model are explored for species richness estimation. Two new improvements to the Chao estimator are developed using the Good-Turing coverage formula. Although the homogeneous abundance model is the simplest model, the species are collected with different probability in practice. This leads to overdispersed data, zero infl

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Scriven, Lucinda Anne. "Enhancing biodiversity on industrial land." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3455.

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The significant decline in flower-visiting invertebrate populations across Europe has been largely attributed to habitat loss and agricultural intensification. To facilitate and enhance population growth, reversal of biodiversity loss within the local landscapes should be addressed. This study identifies and assesses habitat features associated with flower-visiting invertebrates with the aim to develop management targets to enhance biodiversity. The abundance and diversity of flower-visiting invertebrates were compared between six habitat areas within the grounds of the Alcan Aluminium smelter

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Klein, Ann. "Microbial Biodiversity of the Atmosphere." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19676.

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Microorganisms are critical to the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and may also play a role in the functioning of the atmosphere. However, little is known about the diversity and function of microorganisms in the atmosphere. To investigate the forces driving the assembly of bacterial microbial communities in the atmosphere, I measured temporal variation in bacterial diversity and composition over diurnal and inter-day time scales. Results suggest that bacterial communities in the atmosphere markedly vary over diurnal time scales and are likely structured by inputs from both l

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Kartikasari, Sri Nurani. "Your biodiversity in my backyard : key local stakeholders' perceptions of biodiversity conservation in Gorontalo, Indonesia." Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1188.

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The establishment of protected areas (PAs) has been the key national strategy in biodiversity conservation, through preserving the unique wildlife and ecosystems in Indonesia. As well as their status as sites rich in biodiversity, PAs are also important for socio-economic interactions. Hence the management of PAs has been fraught with technical, social and economic problems. To ensure greater local participation and support in tropical forest conservation initiatives, it is vital to understand how local stakeholders perceive them. This research was undertaken in Gorontalo Province by examining

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