scholarly journals Biological Control and Insect Pathology

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Eustachio Tarasco ◽  
Francesca De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Insect Pathology ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Agro Forestry

Agro-forestry intensification is one of the main drivers of the global biodiversity crisis and decline in arthropods and particularly insects [...]

Biodiversity will rise as an international priority

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Climate Crisis

Significance No substantive agreements emerged. Global targets to limit biodiversity loss were agreed in 2010, but all were missed and biodiversity loss has accelerated. The 'Kunming Declaration' does indicate some political will, but any enforceable delivery plans will have to wait for the second part of COP15 next year. Impacts The global biodiversity crisis is arguably as serious and pressing as the climate crisis. The low profile of COP15 shows that the severity of the problem is not yet widely recognised. The goal of making 30% of earth's land and seas 'protected' by 2030 provides new focus; disputes will focus on what it actually means. As host, Beijing will want to demonstrate success and will put pressure on other governments. Biodiversity is difficult even to measure, making is extremely challenging to create clear structures for accountable implementation.

Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in a Nicaraguan, micro-endemic Neotropical salamander, Bolitoglossa mombachoensis

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Stark ◽  
Carlijn Laurijssens ◽  
Martijn Weterings ◽  
An Martel ◽  
Gunther Köhler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Environmental Context ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrates ◽  
The Family ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Low Prevalence

Amphibians are the most threatened terrestrial vertebrates on the planet and are iconic in the global biodiversity crisis. Their global decline caused by the fungal agentBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis(Bd) is well known. Declines of Mesoamerican salamanders of the family Plethodontidae, mainly affecting high elevation species, have equally been attributed toBd. Here we report the prevalence ofBdin a population of a high elevationBolitoglossaspecies in Nicaragua, since its description in 1999 until 2011 in the absence of any obvious population declines. Our findings show a low prevalence in an environmental context where pathogen driven declines would be expected to occur.

Biodiversity hinges on China conference

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Global Biodiversity

Significance The meeting will set a new Global Biodiversity Framework and agree targets to be met by 2030. Scientists and civil society organisations consider it an opportunity to set in train the political leadership and public engagement needed to address the urgent global biodiversity crisis. Impacts China has an opportunity to show leadership on global environmental governance and to showcase its biodiversity conservation achievements. The BRI will face criticism for the biodiversity impacts of its infrastructure projects overseas. Financing arrangements for implementing any agreements will be crucial, and difficult to agree.

Safeguarding Freshwater Life Beyond 2020: Recommendations for the New Global Biodiversity Framework from the European Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. van Rees ◽  
Kerry A. Waylen ◽  
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber ◽  
Stephen J. Thackeray ◽  
Gregor Kalinkat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Freshwater Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Implementation Planning ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Freshwater Monitoring

The drafting of a new Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Biodiversity Strategy for the European Union (EU) render 2020 a critical crossroad for biodiversity conservation. Freshwater biodiversity is disproportionately threatened and poorly studied relative to marine and terrestrial biota, despite providing numerous essential ecosystem services. The urgency of the mounting freshwater biodiversity crisis necessitates approaches catered to the unique ecology and threats of freshwater life, which are not adequately addressed by current strategies. We present a set of 15 special recommendations for freshwater biodiversity to guide the CBD’s post-2020 framework and the 2020 EU strategy based on European case studies, both challenges and successes. Our recommendations cover key outcomes and guiding concepts, enabling conditions and methods of implementation, planning and accountability modalities, and cross-cutting issues. They address topics including invasive species, integrated water resources management, strategic conservation planning, data management, and emerging technologies for freshwater monitoring, among others. These recommendations will enhance the ability of global and European post-2020 biodiversity agreements to halt and reverse the rapid global decline of freshwater biodiversity.

scholarly journals The Quest for New Empowered Citizen Scientists

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Rovellotti ◽  
Julien Corny ◽  
El-Makki Voundy
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Participatory Science ◽  
What Works ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Scientific Questions

Citizen science is well-known as being a very efficient means collecting large amounts of data at a global scale. However, even if it seems nice to collect observations about flowering plants and singing birds, people living in today’s world need to understand this global biodiversity crisis is here to stay. We need to move past the human sensor paradigm and learn to incorporate the general public in the entire research process. We need to move from cheap data labour to truly empowered citizen scientists and realise that stakeholders may not have complex scientific questions but still have questions about their environment. We need to move from citizen science to participatory science (Hinckson et al. 2017,Katapally 2019,Poncet and Turcati 2017), if we want to tackle the challenges we will be facing in the coming years. Natural Solutions has developed a number of gamified citizen science applications in the past (ecoBalade, Biolit, Sauvage de ma rue, INPN espèces, GeoNature Citizen), through which we have gained a good understanding of what works. Our last project is to create a citizen acting mobile platform using cognitive bias to nudge citizen in acting toward biodiversity. The application will be part of the IUCN congress taking part in Marseille in 2020.

scholarly journals A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis

PLoS Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. e3001210
Author(s):  
Jane Melville ◽  
David G. Chapple ◽  
J. Scott Keogh ◽  
Joanna Sumner ◽  
Andrew Amey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Return On Investment ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Species Of Conservation Concern ◽  
Taxonomic Uncertainty ◽  
Taxonomic Research ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Conservation Concern

Global biodiversity loss is a profound consequence of human activity. Disturbingly, biodiversity loss is greater than realized because of the unknown number of undocumented species. Conservation fundamentally relies on taxonomic recognition of species, but only a fraction of biodiversity is described. Here, we provide a new quantitative approach for prioritizing rigorous taxonomic research for conservation. We implement this approach in a highly diverse vertebrate group—Australian lizards and snakes. Of 870 species assessed, we identified 282 (32.4%) with taxonomic uncertainty, of which 17.6% likely comprise undescribed species of conservation concern. We identify 24 species in need of immediate taxonomic attention to facilitate conservation. Using a broadly applicable return-on-investment framework, we demonstrate the importance of prioritizing the fundamental work of identifying species before they are lost.

scholarly journals Advancing Taxonomy in the Global South and completing the Grand Linnaean Enterprise

Megataxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. D. PRATHAPAN ◽  
PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Global Biodiversity

We propose three most important measures for addressing the Linnaean shortfall in the Global South such as, a) completing the Grand Linnaean Enterprise; b) massification of taxonomy; and c) creating an enabling legal and regulatory milieu, which would be our best hold against the global biodiversity crisis.

scholarly journals Towards a comparative framework of demographic resilience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pol Capdevila ◽  
Iain Stott ◽  
Maria Beger ◽  
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Biological Organisation

AbstractIn times of global biodiversity crisis, developing tools to define, quantify, compare and predict ecological resilience is essential for understanding species’ responses to global change. Disparate interpretations of ecological resilience have, however, hampered the development of a common currency to quantify and compare resilience across natural systems. Most frameworks of study have focused on upper levels of biological organisation, especially ecosystems or communities, which adds layers of complication to measuring resilience with empirical data. To overcome such limitations, we suggest quantifying resilience using demographic data. Surprisingly, a quantifiable definition of resilience does not exist at the demographic level. Here, we present a framework of demographic resilience with a set of metrics that are comparable across species, and facilitate cost-effective management decisions.

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