Nov
13
2023
Biodiversity experiments: open questions and future tasks
Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems contain a large number of species and provide a large number of ecosystem services, in particular transformation of solar energy and carbon dioxide into biomass, fueling element cycles, soil formation, climate control and more. The role of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments is to test what would happen if the number of species within an ecosystem ...
May
16
2023
Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia
AbstractSouthwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, with the greatest plant diversity on severely phosphorus-impoverished soils. Non-mycorrhizal plant families (e.g., Proteaceae) feature prominently on the poorest soils, and are uncommon on richer soils.The ecological success of Proteaceae on severely impoverished soils can be explained by two traits. Almost all Proteaceae produce cluster ro...
Apr
07
2023
Global Environmental Changes and Green Development
Erik Solheim is a well-known global leader on environment and development. He served as Norwegian minister of Environment and International Development from 2005-2012. During that period, he initiated the global program for conservation of rainforests and brought through game changing National legislation - among them the Biodiversity Act and legislation to protect Oslo city forests. He bro...
Mar
08
2023
Earth Observation Data, Cloud Computing, and Geospatial Technologies for Socio-Environmental Sustainability
Dr Muhammad Sajjad is currently based at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong SAR where he is a Res. Asst. Prof. (Environmental & Urban Systems) in the Department of Geography. He is a member of the Smart Society Lab (one of the six interdisciplinary research labs at HKBU to provide solutions to common sets of problems) and the Centre for Geo-computation Studies.Dr Sajjad earned h...
Jun
17
2022
The magic of the term 'Blue Carbon' in climate change mitigation and its relation to biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals
Tim Jennerjahn is a Senior Scientist and head of the working group "Ecological Biogeochemistry" at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen, Germany. He is trained in geology and biogeochemistry at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the biogeochemical response of coastal aquatic systems to environmental change and 'Blue Carbon' storage in tropical regions at pre...
May
19
2022
Ocean Governance and Marine Spatial Planning
Stephen Jay (BSc, MA, PhD, MRTPI) is a Reader at the University of Liverpool in the UK, where he specialises in the implementation of maritime spatial planning (MSP). He has researched and published widely on its development, including its implementation in several European nations. Stephen has led many projects on MSP and has frequently acted as an international expert. He is also co-founde...
May
06
2022
Human impact on coasts: what has gone right and wrong
Professor Xiao Hua Wang graduated from Ocean University of China, and holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from James Cook University in Australia. He is the Co-leader of the Sino-Australian Research Consortium for Coastal Management (SARCCM), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, and an associate editor for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (IF= 2.333 Q1) and Limnology and Oceano...
