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Biodiversity intactness index

Author: Scholes, RJ ; Biggs, R Date: 03 Mar 2005 The nations of the world have set themselves a target of reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Here, we propose a biodiversity intactness index (BII) for assessing progress towards this target that is simple and practical - but ... Read more
Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services

Author: Mooney, H ; Larigauderie, A ; Cesario, M ; Elmquist, T ; Hoegh-Guldberg, O ; Lavorel, S ; Mace, GM ; Palmer, M ; Scholes, R ; Yahara, T Date: Aug 2009 The capacity of ecosystems to deliver essential services to society is already under stress. The additional stresses imposed by climate change in the coming years will require extraordinary adaptation. We need to track the changing status of ... Read more
Catchment2Coast: making the link between coastal resource variability and river inputs

Author: Monteiro, Pedro MS ; Matthews, S Date: Jul 2003 An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional modelling research project, which will help improve scientific understanding of the linkages between river catchments and their associated coastal environments, was started in October 2002. Named the ... Read more
Diversity without representation

Author: Scholes, RJ ; Loreau, M ; Oteng-Yeboah, A ; Arroyo, MTK ; Babin, D ; Barbault, R ; Donoghue, M ; Gadgil, M ; Häuser, C ; Heip, C ; Larigauderie, A ; Ma, K ; Mace, G ; Mooney, HA ; Perrings, C ; Raven, P ; Sarukhan, J ; Schei, P ; Watson, RT Date: Jul 2006 Since the 1992 United Nations ‘Earth Summit’ conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, biodiversity has received increasing attention from scientists, governments and the public worldwide. There is growing recognition that the diversity of life ... Read more
Global carbon cycle: A test of our knowledge of the earth

Author: Falkowski, P ; Scholes, RJ ; Boyle, E ; Canadell, J ; Canfield, D ; Elser, J ; Gruber, N ; Hibbard, K ; Hogberg, P ; Linder, S ; Mackenzie, FT ; Moore, B ; Pedersen, T ; Rosenthal, Y ; Seitzinger, S ; Smetacek, V ; Steffen, W Date: 13 Oct 2000 Motivated by the rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 due to the human activities since the industrial revolution, several international scientific research programs have analyzed the role of individual components of the earth system in the ... Read more
Invasive alien plants in South Africa: how well do we understand the ecological impacts?

Author: Richardson, DM ; Van Wilgen, BW Date: Jan 2004 This paper examines the evidence for the effects of invasive alien plants in natural and semi-natural ecosystems in South Africa. Invasive alien plants are concentrated in the Western Cape, along the eastern seaboard, and into the eastern ... Read more
Kuiseb environment: the development of a monitoring baseline. A report of the Committee for Terrestrial Ecosystems. National Programme for Environmental Sciences

Author: Huntley, BJ Date: 1985 The development of the world's largest open-cast uranium mine in the Namib Desert introduced rapidly increasing demands for water to the area in the early 1970's. In the absence of scientifically based information on the likely impact of water ... Read more
Natural and human-induced hypoxia and consequences for coastal areas: synthesis and future development

Author: Zhang, J ; Gilbert, D ; Gooday, AJ ; Levin, L ; Naqvi, SWA ; Middelburg, JJ ; Scranton, M ; Ekau, W ; Pena, A ; Dewitte, B ; Oguz, T ; Monteiro, Pedro MS ; Urban, E ; Rabalais, NN ; Ittekkot, V ; Kemp, WM ; Ulloa, O ; Elmgren, R ; Escobar-Briones, E ; Van der Plas, AK Date: 2010 Hypoxia has become a world-wide phenomenon in the global coastal ocean and causes a deterioration of the structure and function of ecosystems. Based on the collective contributions of members of SCOR Working Group #128, the present study ... Read more
Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

Author: Schimel, DS ; House, JI ; Hibbard, KA ; Bousquet, P ; Ciais, P ; Peylin, P ; Braswell, BH ; Apps, MJ ; Baker, D ; Bondeau, A ; Canadell, J ; Churkina, G ; Cramer, W ; Denning, AS ; Field, CB ; Friedlingstein, P ; Goodale, C ; Heimann, M ; Houghton, RA ; Melillo, JM ; Moore, B ; Murdiyarso, D ; Noble, I ; Pacala, SW ; Prentice, IC ; Raupach, MR ; Rayner, PJ ; Scholes, RJ ; Steffen, WL ; Wirth, C Date: 08 Nov 2001 Knowledge of carbon exchange between the atmosphere, land and the oceans is important, given that the terrestrial and marine environments are currently absorbing about half of the carbon dioxide that is emitted by fossil-fuel combustion. This ... Read more
Substance-specific water quality criteria for the protection of South African freshwater ecosystems: methods for derivation and initial results for some inorganic toxic substances

Author: Roux, DJ ; Jooste, SHJ ; MacKay, HM Date: Apr 1996 Freshwater ecosystems form the resource base on which water users, such as the agricultural, recreational, domestic and industrial sectors depend. These essential resources therefore need to be protected and maintained in a healthy state. The ... Read more

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