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A practical approach to measuring the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

Journal article / This paper presents a global framework for quantifying the relative impacts of human activities on biodiversity.

Restoration of heather-dominated blanket bog vegetation on grouse moors for biodiversity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and water regulation: comparing burning to alternative mowing and uncut management

Other publication / The study examined the evidence gap regarding alternatives to burn-rotation management of heather dominated UK blanket bog on carbon, water and biodiversity.

Bog breathing: the extent of peat shrinkage and expansion on blanket bogs in relation to water table, heather management and dominant vegetation and its implications for carbon stock assessments

Journal article / This study assessed the magnitude of and potential for bog-breathing to influence carbon stock calculations under field and laboratory conditions.

Value farmers if you want to save bees

Media coverage / Innovative farming practices can help preserve biodiversity.

WATERDRIVE

Project / Water-driven rural development in the Baltic Sea Region (WATERDRIVE) is a pan-Baltic project for improving water management.

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Journal article / An international team warns that a failure to act quickly and decisively will risk unprecedented species loss in the most diverse parts of the planet.

Time is running out in the tropics – researchers warn of global biodiversity collapse

Press release / A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major study in Nature.

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SEI at Habitat III

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