Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short

Managing for ocean biodiversity to sustain marine ecosystem services

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America C evidence is accumulating from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems to suggest that sustainable ecosystem services depend upon a diverse biota (Daily et al. 1997; Loreau et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2001; Wall et al. 2004; MA 2005; Sala and Knowlton 2006; Worm et al. 2006; Butler et al. 2007; Hector and Bagchi 2007). In princi...

Transgenes sustain epigeal insect biodiversity in diversified vegetable farm systems.

Many ecological studies have focused on the effects of transgenes in field crops, but few have considered multiple transgenes in diversified vegetable systems. We compared the epigeal, or soil surface-dwelling, communities of Coleoptera and Formicidae between transgenic and isoline vegetable systems consisting of sweet corn, potato, and acorn squash, with transgenic cultivars expressing Cry1(A)...

Early Results of States’ Efforts to Support, Scale, and Sustain the National Diabetes Prevention Program

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a cooperative agreement with health departments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to strengthen chronic disease prevention and management efforts through the implementation of evidence-based strategies, such as CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program. The National Diabetes Prevention Program supports organizations to ...

How the Tree of Life informs biodiversity conservation efforts

Higher biodiversity is required to sustain multiple ecosystem processes across temperature regimes

Biodiversity loss is occurring rapidly worldwide, yet it is uncertain whether few or many species are required to sustain ecosystem functioning in the face of environmental change. The importance of biodiversity might be enhanced when multiple ecosystem processes (termed multifunctionality) and environmental contexts are considered, yet no studies have quantified this explicitly to date. We mea...