| Titre : | AMBIO 38(1) - FEB 2009 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Shixiong Cao, Auteur ;
Li Chen, Auteur ;
Zhande Liu, Auteur
China is the world's most populous country and has one of the largest territories. As such, Chinese attitudes and behavior with regard to environmental issues are key factors in protecting the world's natural resources and environment. In this s[...]
Article
Rodolfo N. Sousa, Auteur ;
Marcello M. Veiga, Auteur
The Tapajos River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon is the location of one of the largest concentrations of artisanal and small-scale miners in the world. Today, 40 000 miners produce 8 t of gold annum(-1) and at least double this amount of mercury [...]
Article
Pushpam Kumar, Auteur
This paper describes the process of urbanization and land use change in the urban ecosystems of the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India. Two types of land use change are considered-from natural to urban and from agricultural to urban. [...]
Article
Jorge Soberon, Auteur ;
A. Townsend Peterson, Auteur
Development of effective indicators is indispensable for countries and societies to monitor effects of their actions on biodiversity, as is recognized in decision VI/26 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Good indicators would ideally be [...]
Article
Sofie Sjogersten, Auteur ;
Philip A. Wookey, Auteur
Changes in temperature and moisture resulting from climate change are likely to strongly modify the ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity in high-latitude areas, both through vegetation shifts and via direct warming effects on photosynthesis a[...]
Article
Chongyun Wang, Auteur ;
Peter van der Meer, Auteur ;
Mingchun Peng, Auteur ;
Wim Douven, Auteur ;
Rudi Hessel, Auteur ;
Chenlin Dang, Auteur
In the Langcang (Upper-Mekong) watershed, degraded watershed ecosystems in upland areas threaten cultivation practices, water resources, and dam development downstream. Assessment of ecosystem services and the factors that threaten them is an im[...]
Article
Sena S. De Silva, Auteur ;
Thuy T. T. Nguyen, Auteur ;
Giovanni M. Turchini, Auteur ;
Upali S. Amarasinghe, Auteur ;
Nigel W. Abery, Auteur
Aquaculture is seen as an alternative to meeting the widening gap in global rising demand and decreasing supply for aquatic food products. Asia, the epicenter of the global aquaculture industry, accounts for over 90% of the global aquaculture pr[...]
Article
Sonia M. Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Gillian A. Glegg, Auteur ;
M. Eduardo Pereira, Auteur ;
Armando C. Duarte, Auteur
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of pollution problems in the Northeast Atlantic and associated responses and considers the effectiveness of these measures on environmental contamination. It identifies shortcomings in past practi[...]
Article
David R. Klein, Auteur ;
Martha Shulski, Auteur
Introduced reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, overexploited lichen-rich plant communities on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. A die-off of the reindeer followed, exacerbated by extreme weather in 1964, resulting in extirpation of the reindeer. A [...]
