Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in conservation science

LJ Sonter, SH Ali, JEM Watson - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mining poses serious and highly specific threats to biodiversity. However, mining can also
be a means for financing alternative livelihood paths that, over the long-term, may prevent …

[HTML][HTML] Plant diversity in a changing world: status, trends, and conservation needs

RT Corlett - Plant diversity, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that
drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us. There are …

Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, E Baquero, S Munier… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of SARS-CoV-2-related
viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats,,–, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG13 …

Global distribution of carbonate rocks and karst water resources

N Goldscheider, Z Chen, AS Auler… - Hydrogeology …, 2020‏ - cris.leibniz-zmt.de
Karst regions offer a variety of natural resources such as freshwater and biodiversity, and
many cultural resources. The World Karst Aquifer Map (WOKAM) is the first detailed and …

[كتاب][B] The biology of caves and other subterranean habitats

DC Culver, T Pipan - 2019‏ - books.google.com
The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but
comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating …

Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011

WJ Sutherland, S Bardsley, L Bennun, M Clout… - Trends in ecology & …, 2011‏ - cell.com
This review describes outcomes of a 2010 horizon-scanning exercise building upon the first
exercise conducted in 2009. The aim of both horizon scans was to identify emerging issues …

Coronaviruses with a SARS-CoV-2-like receptor-binding domain allowing ACE2-mediated entry into human cells isolated from bats of Indochinese peninsula

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, EB Salazar, S Munier… - 2021‏ - hal.science
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of various SARS-CoV-2-
related viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats, including the closest virus from R. affinis …

The edaphic control of plant diversity

CM Hulshof, MJ Spasojevic - Global Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background The central thesis of plant ecology is that climate determines the global
distribution of vegetation. Within a vegetation type, however, finer‐scale environmental …

Understanding and minimizing environmental impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative

AC Hughes - Conservation Biology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) sets to create connections and build
infrastructure across Eurasia, Asia, and parts of the African continent in its initial phase and …

The critical importance of Old World fruit bats for healthy ecosystems and economies

SA Aziz, KR McConkey, K Tanalgo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Despite extensive documentation of the ecological and economic importance of Old World
fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) and the many threats they face from humans, negative …