[PDF] Top 20 Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes

... stressors and changes in land use have led to rapid and dramatic species ...losses. As such, we need effective monitoring programs that alert us not only to biodiversity losses, but also to ... See full document

... transporting and applying the product on the building site. Its main environmental impact is associated with the generation of construction and demolition ...packaging and demolition ... See full document

... to change the spatial extent of targets relating to those ...herds of caribou (Rangifer spp) are expected to converge in the Arctic as suitable habitat increases as a result of ... See full document

... Head of Science, Economics, Policy and Partnerships at UNEP-WCMC, where he has worked since ...(one of his early research projects explored the impacts of tourism in Keoladeo National Park, a ... See full document

... combination of an individual’s belief about what significant others think they ought to do and his/her motivation to comply with those beliefs determine subjective normative ...relationship of ... See full document

... efficacy of such an approach is evidenced by the development and implementation of a metric for quantifying how socio-economic factors can contribute to forest vulnerability and mapping how ... See full document

... seen as a strategic resource, whereas water consumption plays an important role, especially in food ...other indicators (31% monitor GHG emissions and 27% energy eƧ ciency ƥ gures) to investments in ... See full document

... types of indicator, namely those associated with early warning of change and those (regarded as) closely associated with ecosystem-level ...communities of organisms that ... See full document

... importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities (HCF) is increasingly widely recognized and implicitly captured in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...“universal” ... See full document

... vital and becomes a prerequisite, achieve greater articulation of the various policies, environmental programs and strategies with the needs and characteristics of a forest ... See full document

... effects of environmental contaminants can be tested using a wide range of tests based on biomarkers (Ali and Kumar, 2008), but recently, and for toxicity tests with microalgae, has ... See full document

... areas of the planet (Boy et ...N and P (Dalling, Heine- man, Gonz alez, & Ostertag, 2016; Santiago, 2015; Tanner, Vitousek, & Cuevas, ...conservation of highly diverse TMF because nitrogen ... See full document

... existence of a U-shaped relation between environmental degradation and per capita ...growth as a precondition to implement environmental effective policies, and thus to revert ... See full document

... twice as many countries. These models account for a greater percentage of the outcomeÕs var- ...household and regional dynamics interact in complicated ways that are more difficult to discern at the ... See full document

... physics of the climate system, some include the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical cy- cles, and some include interactive natural vegetation and/or interactive dust ...same as for ... See full document

... nature of responsible or ‘green’ consumption and to study the extent to which the attitudes and behavior of consumers are changing in this ...meaning of consumption for the consumer ... See full document

... point of view, SD demands the ac- cess to clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy sour- ces (Vera et ...objectives as they offer benefits for energy security, greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation, ... See full document

... Traditionally, environmental indicators are composite indicators, that is, they are a mathematical combination of a set of indicators or criteria that have no common meaningful ... See full document

... Galperín and Hoppstock (2013), it is not reasonable or adequate to protect the environment by placing restrictions on ...implementation of protectionist environmental policies that are socially well ... See full document

... either of the two MHWs was not detected for any of the ...physiology and leaf development did not converge to those values of the control ...effects of warming became even more evident ... See full document