[PDF] Top 20 On the use of higher taxa in biodiversity assessment and conservation of bryophyte species

... ecosystems and more studies, for different taxonomic groups, are still needed, since general conclusions cannot be extrapolated from regional to local or micro-scales (Mandelik et ...2007). In our case we ... See full document

... Of the 1,7 million plant and animal species that have been identified on Earth, Turkey is host to approximately ...76.539 of them (Çağatay et al., 2013). There are about 12.000 ... See full document

... federal conservation units (Harris et al., 2006). On a global scale, there has been a positive assessment of the implementation of public policies on science and ... See full document

... hunting of wildlife remains a persistent threat to the wildlife across the ...high and widespread, its impact on the wildlife populations has not caught the attention ... See full document

... upon the strengths of our approach, RAS aims to make important advances in understanding the sustainability challenges facing Amazonia with regards to four broad objec- ...quantify and ... See full document

... population and, more recently, to the increase of fish farms and net cages activities in the ...region. The fact that fish cultivation is one of the main ... See full document

... In the last decade, DNA techniques have proved common, inexpensive, rapid, and accurate means for identifying species and assessing biodiversity (Darling & Blum ...wildlife ... See full document

... morphologies and chemistries. Althought, this technique benefits from simplicity and low cost because prior knowledge of a plant’s genetic sequence is not required, few researchers currently ... See full document

... 103 species and a few inde- termined ...protocols and a standardised sampling of different habitats are urgently needed for the adequate inventory of spiders and other ... See full document

... Law on Hunting and the Law on Fauna work in tandem to protect Mongolian ...at the conclusion of the working group session that these laws be updated to incor- ... See full document

... Wiens and Donoghue 2004). Most of these studies have not addressed the potential of comparative phylogeography to understand community structure, probably due to a lack of molecular ... See full document

... survey in herbaria in Brazil and abroad, complemented by a survey of the literature and searches of biodiversity data, 66 taxa of Eriocaulaceae have ... See full document

... The conservation of genetic diversity is of paramount importance for long-term species survival because the maintenance of gene pools with sufficient variability is ... See full document

... some species. Educational programmes were not identiied as in place for any ...ing the conservation of biodiversity, a number do exist, such as the Zoological Society ... See full document

... procedure and weighted them according to conservation importance (1, 0.5 and 2 ...cells the ones with a high occurrence probability for highly weighted species, enabling emphasis ... See full document

... ubiquitous, the outcomes of each interaction vary depending on physical and biotic changes in the ...ever and unconditionally a mutualism (Figure ...modifying the ... See full document

... Patterns of co-occurrence of species are widely used to assess the fit of ecological neutral models to empirical ...patterns. The mathematically equivalent patterns of ... See full document

... Formative assessment stands out due to the regulation of pedagogic ...an assessment that seeks pedagogic regulation, risk management and the consolidation of achievements ... See full document

... value of the analysed grassland was assessed as medium and it requires the application of certain works in order to bring an extra value to it and to conserve and ... See full document

... diversity of indigenous cultures, with at least thirty tribes of eleven language ...studies on the use of plants and resources of its various areas of life, ... See full document