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Abstract: Tropical forests play a key role in climate change mitigation. Recovering, degraded and secondary forests are becoming more dominant in tropical landscapes and yet large uncertainties exist regarding their carbon sink and ...

Biotic nativeness is a cornerstone concept in conservation biology and in many fields in ecology. The importance of biotic concept is premised on the notion that long term coevolutionary history is necessary ...

In 2020, writer and campaigner Guy Shrubsole moved from London to Devon. As he explored the wooded valleys, rivers and tors of Dartmoor, Guy discovered a spectacular habitat that he had never ...

The talk will a) showcase some cities that have incorporated biodiversity conservation successfully, b) share how the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks) implements its City in Nature vision and c) illustrate ...

The biota of the Great Plains of North America face numerous challenges. These include massive habitat conversion to row crop agriculture, loss of large native vertebrates, and altered biogeochemistry. The ramifications of ...

The past few decades have been a large global increase in the incidence of non- communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular, respiratory, and mental illnesses. These conditions now account for more than 50% ...

During recent years the discourse in efforts to protect the natural world have moved from conservation and into a frame more characterised by Nature recovery. This talk will consider why this has been ...

Billions of dollars of results-based financing for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) at jurisdictional and project scales are expected to be delivered over the next 5 years through voluntary carbon ...

Climate change is happening fast, driving some ecosystems well beyond their limits. Conservation policy commonly aims to restore habitats to historical benchmarks or modern likely equivalents. However, as climate changes and species ...

Please join us for the Nature-based Solutions Conference 2022, where we will bring together leading researchers from the social and natural sciences, engineering and economics with policymakers, civil society actors and business ...