Biodiversity Indicators for Sustainability Evaluation of Conventional and Organic Agro-ecosystems

Environmental Evaluation and Monitoring of Agro-Ecosystems Biodiversity

Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security.

Agricultural ecosystems are composed of genetically depauperate populations of crop plants grown at a high density and over large spatial scales, with the regional composition of crop species changing little from year to year. These environments are highly conducive for the emergence and dissemination of pathogens. The uniform host populations facilitate the specialization of pathogens to parti...

Biodiversity management of organic farming enhances agricultural sustainability

Organic farming (OF) has been believed to be capable of curtailing some hazardous effects associated with chemical farming (CF). However, debates also exist on whether OF can feed a world with increasing human population. We hypothesized that some improvements on OF may produce adequate crops and reduce environmental pollutions from CF. This paper makes comparative analysis of crop yield, soil ...

Criteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Management: Conservation of Biodiversity

The need for new criteria and indicators for the assessment of biodiversity conservation as part of sustainable forest management of tropical forests has been identified as a priority by many international organisations. Those biodiversity criteria and indicators which formed part of a much broader initial assessment by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (Prabhu et al. 1996)...

Ice Ecosystems and Biodiversity