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Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the scientific term for the variety of life on Earth. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 1341–1350. It is about people and our need for food security, medicines, fresh air and water, shelter, and a clean and healthy environment in which to live. It is essential to human wellbeing, as it delivers services that sustain our economies and societies. Haase, P., Tonkin, J.D., Stoll, S., Burkhard, B., Frenzel, M., Geijzendorffer, I.R., Häuser, C., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., McDowell, W.H., Mirtl, M., Müller, F., Musche, M., Penner, J., Zacharias, S. & Schmeller, D.S. Molecular Ecology 15: 2153-2169. Hessen, 1994  Diploma (MSc) in Environmental Protection, University of Kassel, Find out about threatened species and ecological communities, wildlife trade, invasive species and migratory species. Stoll, S., Früh, D., Westerwald, B., Hormel, N., Haase, P. (2013). We focus on both the natural variability and. Limnologica 34: 349-365. 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Pauls, S.U., Lumbsch, H.T. It even helps mitigate … , Mihoub, J.-B. Since 2017  ILTER Science Committee Chair, Since 10.2016  Member of the ILTER Executive Committee, Since 10.2016  Member of the International Long-Term Ecologiocal Research (ILTER) Science Committee, Since 01.2016  Full Professor at the Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Since 08.2012  Spokesperson of research field Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Since 06.2012  Professor at the Faculty of Biosciences, University of Frankfurt, Since 10.2009  Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Senckenberg Gesellschaft Stoten 557: 722-732. Diverging response patterns of terrestrial and aquatic species to hydromorphological restoration. valuation, TEEB aims to help decision makers recognise the economic benefits of biodiversity and the growing cost of ecosystem degradation (TEEB, 2010). Früh, D., Stoll, S. & Haase, P. (2012). The management of natural resources can determine the baseline health status of a community. SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature. Limnologica 55: 33-41. This wide array of ecosystems, ecological processes, species and genes is essential to our existence. Ecohydrology 10 (8) e1895. Physico-chemical variables determining the invasion risk of freshwater habitats by alien mollusks and crustaceans. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the complex linkages between emerging infectious diseases and the unregulated trade in wildlife, habitat loss, biodiversity fragmentation and shifting dispersal patterns caused by new weather extremes. More formally, biodiversity is comprised of several levels, starting with genes, then individual species, then communities of creatures and finally … The rise of riverine flow-ecology and environmental flow research. Centred on economic. (2010). UNEP’s World Environment Situation Room is a dynamic knowledge platform designed to collect, process and share the world's best environmental science and research, as well as the mass of new data from satellites, drones and citizen science. Basically, you can’t solve the biodiversity problem if you don’t solve all those problems as well. Zoonotic infectious disease does not only come from the mishandling and consumption of unsafe meat. Genetic population structure of an autumn emerging caddisfly with inherently low dispersal capacity and insights into its phylogeography. Taxon-specific physico-chemical change points for stream benthic invertebrates. UNEP collaborates with biodiversity-related conventions, scientific bodies. Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities. Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms on earth - the different plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Species history masks the effects of human-induced range loss – unexpected genetic diversity in the endangered giant mayfly Palingenia longicauda. Conservation Biology, DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13477. Manfrin, A., Teurlincx, S., Lorenz, A., Haase, P., Marttila, M., Syrjänen, J., Thomas, G. & Stoll, S. (2019). Greater diversity in species ensure natural sustainability for all life forms. Climate-change winners and losers: stream macroinvertebrates of a submontane region in Central Europe. “Biodiversity is facing a financial gap of US$711 billion per year until 2030,” said Guterres. Biodiversity is the name given to the variety of ecosystems (natural capital), species and genes in the world or in a particular habitat. An attack on two fronts: how predicted climate and land use changes affect the predicted distribution of stream macroinvertebrates. non Mabille. Stoten 553: 495-503. The Biological Diversity Act 2002 was born out of India’s attempt to realise the objectives enshrined in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1992 which recognizes the sovereign rights of states to use their own Biological Resources. PLoS ONE 7(3): e31872. Senckenberg can avail itself of a unique stock of long-term data for a range of different marine, limnic and terrestrial ecosystems. Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at global scale. The molecular population structure of the tallforb Cicerbita alpina (L.) Wallr. Dirnböck, T, Haase, P., Mirtl, M., Pau, J. Stoten 626: 1439-1462. Generally, ecosystems change only very slowly. Journal of Animal Ecology. Long-term monitoring data meet freshwater species distribution models: Lesson from an LTER-site. Freshwater Biology 60: 209-221. Environmental Polluton, DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115781. Macrophytes respond to reach-scale river restorations. One of our most important aims is to connect these long-term data series into a useful network. Environment : Biodiversity Conservation. 60325 Frankfurt Thesis: “On the ecology of the river system Nieme – Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES) is a fast and peer-reviewed journal and is scheduled to publish 12 issues in a year. British environmental scientist Norman Myers and his colleagues have identified 25 terrestrial biodiversity hotspots that could serve as priorities for habitat protection. Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates. Assessing resilience in long-term ecological data sets. Belgian Journal of Zoology 142: 49-58. (2006). © UNEP Terms of Use Privacy Report a project concern. Comparison of macroinvertebrate sampling methods in Europe. & Haase, P. (2006). 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