18.10.2012
 Article alert: Managers consider multiple lines of evidence important for biodiversity management decisions
Journal of Environmental Management (2012) doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.09.002Cook CN, Carter RW, Fuller RA, Hockings MProtected area managers often fail to use empirical evidence for their management decision...
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15.10.2012
New method to scale up the value of ecosystem services
Science for Environment Policy (2012) 301There is increasing policy demand for the ‘scaling-up’ of ecosystem service valuations to a national or regional level, but available methods for doing this are limited. ...
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04.10.2012
Job alert: PhD position in “Biodiversity and cosystem Services of Large Mammals” (Frankfurt, Germany)
The Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt, working group Prof. Katrin Böhning-Gaese, invites applications for a Ph...
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09.09.2012
Messages to policy-makers from conservation scientists gathered in Glasgow
ECCB expresses concerns about the on-going intensification and homogenization of agricultural landscapes across Europe and beyond. It calls for a robust and effective plan for sustainable land use that meets current and growi...
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02.09.2012
Scientist ready to engage policy-makers in the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
“IPBES, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, is established and we welcome the initiative”, said Carlo Rondinini of the Global Mammal Assessment program at the European Congres...
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30.08.2012
Ecological monitoring on bird populations in Europe re-evaluated
Biodiversity and environmental monitoring is of crucial importance to diagnose changes in the environment and natural populations in order to provide conservation practice with relevant data and recommendations. The informati...
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30.08.2012
Scientists call policy-makers to be scale-aware
To be successful, nature conservation measures must account for the complexity of the human impact and how nature responds to them, at different spatial and temporal scales. "Scale-sensitive research" emerges as a new, interd...
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30.08.2012
Biodiversity conservation depends on scale: Lessons from the science-policy dialogue
The year 2010 marked the deadline for the political targets to significantly reduce and halt biodiversity loss. The failure to achieve the 2010 goal stimulated the setting up of new targets for 2020. In addition, preventing t...
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21.08.2012
Wild pollinators support farm productivity and stabilize yield
Most people are not aware of the fact that 84% of the European crops are partially or entirely dependent on insect pollination. While managed honeybees pollinate certain crops, wild bees, flies and wasps cover a very broad sp...
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15.08.2012
Climate Change and Arthropods: Pollinators, Herbivores, and Others
By Sandra L. Brantley and Paulette L. FordThe ecological roles of arthropods are important, even critical, and should be included when monitoring and predicting effects of global warming. Although knowledge of m...
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