Search results

… flows used to power turbines to generate electricity or biomass which can be used for heating, cooking and … to electricity and over 2.5 billion people depend on biomass fuels for cooking and heating (WEO 2006). These … directly on ecosystems for their energy supply, e.g. biomass, will suffer the greatest consequences. Ensuring …

… using an inter-annual vegetation index as an indicator of biomass production decline or increase found that land … and land cover types. Anthropogenic declines in biomass productivity were found on 25% of croplands and … vegetation. The study also identified improvement of biomass productivity on 2.7% of the global land mass (Le et …

… of the following: productivity, soil, vegetation cover, biomass, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and environmental … Dynamics (LPD) dataset that refers to the standing biomass productivity, and is derived from phenological … strictly refers to the overall above-ground vegetation biomass productivity. This is not conceptually the same as, …

… a high concentration of biodiversity, that they contain biomass of high value for regulating the global climate and …

… services through their sequestration capacity in soils and biomass, and adaptation services, essential to anticipate …

… in an increase in the number of species (+ 20 to 30%), biomass (+450%) and the size of fish, compared to unprotected …

… tuna has declined by 70 per cent.22 Since 1990, the biomass of yellowfin in the region has steadily declined. … recruitment is predicted to result in a rapid decline in biomass. Based on the results of the assessment, the WCPFC … benchmark. A stock is considered overfished when its biomass falls below the relevant overfishing benchmark. …

… the capacity of ecosystems to capture resources, produce biomass, decompose organic matter and recycle carbon, water … M. and Weis, J.J. (2007). ‘Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species … setting and grazing on plant communities and plant biomass on a large dryland floodplain’. Journal of Arid …

… use values that include the production of food, timber, biomass, and. other externalities are more tangible than …

… fixation, with 70% in soils and 30% in above-ground living biomass; soil formation; biodiversity; nutrient cycling; and … of the Southern Ocean is relatively small, but biomass is huge. This overall pattern is related to the cold, … soils contain unexpectedly high levels of microbial biomass. Extremophiles 6:431–436. Government of France. 2010. …