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BioModel: SDMs for Lomonosov Moscow State University Conference
April 12-15: the XVII International conference «Lomonosov» BioModel has presented results of SDM-approach for East Europe. Thesis is available in russian.
April 12-15: the XVII International conference «Lomonosov» BioModel has presented results of SDM-approach for East Europe. Thesis is available in russian.
The article about the global-biodiversity-assessment-model-GLOBIO3 is available here, see BioModel ‘Publications’ section – https://biomodel.info/?page_id=2439. (source)
Summary of the Day 1: WWF Senegal WAMER: Data collection, analysis; a case-study for the Government. Wetlands International: RAMSAR convention, birds-and-poverty. PBL: MSA-and-modelling, BDs, MSA in use for ecological reporting, policy making process/debates. Kenya: Forestry, cutting, agriculture, trends, deforestation, land conversion, forestry quality; communities; water shade protection and forestry; snow Read more…
October 28-29, 2009: The Young Scientists National Conference-2009 took place in biology faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University. Participants presented scientific reports within following sections: botany, environmental protection, ecology, microbiology, virology, plant physiology cytology and histology, developmental biology, zoology, human and animal physiology, pharmacology, biophysics, radiobiology biochemistry, molecular biology, Read more…
The summit took place just under 80 days before the start of the UN Copenhagen conference. The Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon stressed: “Climate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical and economic issue of the 21st century” and “We will pay an unacceptable price if we do not Read more…
WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic’s most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming. These dramatic predictions have been made by Yongqi Read more…
Newest investigation of relationship between past warming and sea-level rise confirms that sea-level rise is imminent even in case of stabilization at today’s CO2 levels. Moreover, new conclusion is that rise level will be much higher than it was predicted by long-term projections from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Read more…
In his IDB message of May 22, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon said: “… The most cost-effective and feasible method of control is prevention. To be successful, this strategy requires collaboration among Governments, economic sectors and non-governmental and international organizations. A country can only prevent invasions Read more…
Global Biodiversity means about 1.6 million known species, and that is thought to be serious underestimate of the total number of it. The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee Read more…