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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Surprising True Story of Patrick S. "The First", Rupert R., Sly S. and Gus G., Protocells in Their Very Early Years -- This Is the Story -- Rupert's Story: (How Patrick, Now That He Exists, Provides an Opportunity for Rupert to Emerge and Exist) -- The Amazing Story of Sly Protocell -- The Story of Gus -- Preface -- A Manifesto in Defence of Biological Diversity -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Biodiversity, between Speciation and Extinction -- 1.1. Biodiversity: The Last Ecological Science -- 1.2. Speciation and Extinction: The Two Driving Forces of Biodiversity -- 1.2.1. Speciation: The Source of Biodiversity -- 1.2.2. Extinction: The Reducer of Biodiversity -- Part II: Biodiversity from Cells to Gaia -- Chapter 2 -- Biodiversity in Time -- 2.1. Competition and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.1.1. Intraspecific Competition -- 2.1.2. Interspecific Competition -- 2.2. Neutrality and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.3. Predators and Parasites and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.4. A Conceptual Model of the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.5. Avoidance of Competition, Cooperation and Biodiversity -- Chapter 3 -- Biodiversity in Space -- 3.1. Biodiversity Is Autopoietic -- 3.2. Biodiversity Is Autocatalytic -- 3.3. Biodiversity Is Fractal -- 3.3.1. Biogeographical/Evolutionary Theories and Hypotheses: -- 3.3.2. Ecological theories: -- 3.4. Biodiversity Is Three-Dimensional -- 3.5. Biodiversity Is Dynamic -- Chapter 4 -- Biodiversity and Gaia -- 4.1. Gaia Is Biodiversity -- 4.2. How Gaia's Biodiversity Makes Earth Alive -- 4.2.1. The First Criticism: Teleology and Natural Selection -- 4.2.2. The Second Criticism: Reproduction -- 4.2.3. The Third Criticism: Reproducibility -- Part III: Monitoring Biodiversity -- Chapter 5 -- Sampling Biodiversity -- 5.1. The Sampling Effort and How to Sample

The urgency of transforming biodiversity governance / Ingrid J.Visseren-Hamakers and Marcel Kok -- Defining Nature / Hans Keune, Marco Immovilli, Roger Keller, Simone Maynard, Pam McElwee, Zsolt Molnár, Gunilla A. Olsson, Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Anik Schneiders, Machteld Schoolenberg, Suneetha M. Subramanian and Wouter Van Reeth -- Global biodiversity governance : what needs to be transformed? / Joanna Smallwood; Amandine Orsini; Marcel Kok; Christian Prip and Katarzyna Negacz -- How to save a million species? Transformative governance through prioritization / Ingrid J. Visseren Hamakers, Benjamin Cashore, Derk Loorbach, Marcel Kok, Susan de Koning, Pieter Vullers and Anne van Veen -- One health and biodiversity / Hans Keune, Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Serge Morand and Simon Rüegg -- Biodiversity finance and transformative governance : the limitations of innovative financial instruments / Richard van der Hoff and Nowella Anyango-van Zwieten -- Emerging technologies in biodiversity governance : gaps and opportunities for transformative governance / Florian Rabitz, Jesse L. Reynolds and Elsa Tsioumani -- Rethinking and upholding justice and equity in transformative biodiversity governance / Jonathan Pickering, Brendan Coolsaet, Neil Dawson, Kimberly Marion Suiseeya, Cristina Y. A. Inoue and Michelle Lim -- Mainstreaming the animal in biodiversity governance : broadening the moral and legal community to non-humans / Andrea Schapper, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, David Humphreys and Cebuan Bliss -- Industry responses to evolving regulation of marine bioprospecting in Polar Regions / Kristin Rosendal and Jon Birger Skjærseth -- Transformative biodiversity governance for protected and conserved areas / Janice Weatherley-Singh, Madhu Rao, Elizabeth Matthews, Lilian Painter, Lovy Rasolofomanana, Kyaw T. Latt, Me`ira Mizrahi and James E.M. Watson -- The convivial conservation imperative : exploring 'biodiversity impact chains' to support structural transformation / Bram Büscher, Kate Massarella, Robert Coates, Sierra Deutsch, Wolfram Dressler, Robert Fletcher, Marco Immovilli and Stasja Koot -- Transformative biodiversity governance in agricultural landscapes : taking stock of biodiversity policy integration and looking forward / Yves Zinngrebe, Fiona Kinniburgh, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Sabina J. Khan and Hens Runhaar -- Cities and the transformation of biodiversity governance / Harriet Bulkeley, Linjun Xie, Judy Bush, Katharina Rochell, Julie Greenwalt, Hens Runhaar, Ernita van Wyk, Cathy Oke and Ingrid Coetzee -- Transformative governance for ocean biodiversity / Bolanle Erinosho, Hashali Hamukuaya, Claire Lajaunie, Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster, Mitchell Lennan, Pierre Mazzega, Elisa Morgera and Bernadette Snow -- Enabling transformative biodiversity governance in the post-2020 era / Marcel Kok, Elsa Tsioumani, Cebuan Bliss, Marco Immovilli, Hans Keune, Elisa Morgera, Simon Ruegg, Andrea Schapper, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Yves Zinngrebe and Ingrid J.Visseren-Hamakers.

Biodiversity is a complex concept entailing scientific and political aspects. The usage of analogies, especially metaphors, that have positive influences on the understanding of complex concepts, on attitudes and behaviors, seems an interesting strategy to achieve this goal. Based on biodiversity analogies elaborated by 259 participants, a first study aims to identify two important protective approaches: preservationism that encourages humankind to limit their intervention on nature and conservationism that allows humankind to exploit nature with parsimony. We analyzed their analogies and results highlight three major groups: a scientific, a conservationist and a preservationist dimension. A second study investigates the effects of metaphorical framing on environmental attitudes and behaviors. 277 University students read a short text framing biodiversity with a preservationist or conservationist metaphor or without metaphor framing. A decision-making task and an environmental concern scale were completed. Results showed an effect of the conservationist metaphor on the decision-making task.

Appreciating biodiversity science: Why biodiversity should be a big science
Professor F. Guillaume Blanchet from Université de Sherbrooke posits the importance of treating biodiversity science as a big science to reach the goals set during the COP15 on biodiversity. Biodiversity encompasses every variety of life on Earth, from the bacteria that cause strep throat to blue whales and humans. Biodiversity has been studied everywhere, from seemingly alien ecosystems around hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the oceans to the mosses and lichen of Mount Everest. Biodiversity should not only be seen as the number of species that live in a particular area at a specific time but also understood as how living organisms differ in their genetics and functions and how ecosystems differ from each other.

A study to ascertain the biodiversity value of lands on six hospital sites.

"Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain most of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable resources with a potentially small ecological and carbon footprint. Yet the global demand for forest products has increased while the need to conserve biodiversity and endangered species has become more urgent and challenging

"The term "Biodiversity" or "Biological diversity" describes the variety of living beings on earth encompassing microorganisms, plants, animals and ecosystems. For example, coral reefs, forests, and deserts etc. In fact, it also represents a wealth of biological resources available to us. Biodiversity's wealth of genetic information can be conserved by storing biological material from endangered species. Cell lines, gametes, and embryos are preserved so that in case the species get extinct or there is a need to increase the population of the species, then cloning and artificial reproductive techniques can be used to revive and reproduce these species. The cloning of animals may be helpful in the direction. The extinct species can be revived from the genetic material contained in dead tissues like skin, bones, etc. Though cloning techniques have been successful for only a few animal species, the future developments in this technology provide hope for resurrecting the extinct ones. The present volume discusses the biodiversity of specific animal groups, such as cnidarians and fish, as well as potential risks to and methods for conserving some of them. The following important aspects have been addressed: Importance of biodiversity in maintaining ecosystem balance for sustainability. Emerging role of biodiversity as source of important materials, pharmaceuticals, food etc. as such or through genetic manipulations to meet the contemporary and futuristic challenges. Impact of environment degradation on biodiversity and conservation in a changing environment. Conventional and emerging biotechnological techniques to conserve biodiversity. The book is intended for academics, scientists, and naturalists working in the fields of biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and biomedical sciences"--

AbstractRecent reviews of the priority policy options and research needs for nature conservation have identified the importance of new land use policies for restoring and rebuilding biodiversity including habitat banking, 'no net loss' of biodiversity, restoring flood plain functionality and ecologically coherent networks. Such policies are usually delivered by habitat creation, habitat restoration and habitat enhancement. Habitat translocation is another mechanism that can contribute to the delivery of these policies. Habitats can be restored and created by translocating ecological resources from sites as part of ongoing habitat management, where habitat diversity or early successional habitats are required. Habitat translocation can be used to salvage ecological features and their associated ecosystem services from sites for consented or permitted development projects. Critical success factors for translocation of aquatic and terrestrial habitats are identified. New policy issues and research topics relating to habitat translocation are proposed.

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical role in global biodiversity. This is the first book to provide an overview of international developments in urban biodiversity and sustainable design. It brings together the views, experiences and expertise of leading scientists and designers from the industrialised and pre-industrialised countries from around the world. The contributors explore the biological, cultural and social values of urban biodiversity, including methods for assessing and evaluating urban biodiversity, social

Decolonizing biodiversity conservation science and practice involves a transition towards more locally rooted, plural, socially just, and convivial forms of conservation, moving away from mainstream conservation approaches, such as protected areas, sustainable resource management plans, or market-based instruments that are strongly rooted in Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies. In this article, we introduce and review the contributions to the special issue "Decolonizing biodiversity conservation" and we identify six principles that can be thought of as starting points in efforts to decolonize conservation: recognition, reparation, epistemic disobedience, relationality, power subversion, and limits. We explain how these principles feature in the collection's contributions and how they can contribute to decolonizing conservation science, policy, and practice. We also acknowledge that there can be differences over meaning and emphasis regarding the principles among Indigenous and local peoples, scholars, and practitioners. Yet we think that their implementation can result in subtler and less universalizing conservation approaches.