This report reveals gaps in Canada's understanding of its own biodiversity, which is essential to enabling conservation action and effective reporting.
A hands-on guide to biodiversity inventory, this manual provides an overview of the data sources, analytical tools and methods, and field techniques involved in surveying lands for rare species and ecological communities of concern.
While their flights of fancy may seem insignificant, butterflies are sentinels or early indicators of this change, and can act as important messengers to raise awareness.
With amphibians in crisis worldwide, Threatened Amphibians of the World offers a visual journey through the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world's 6,000 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians.
This classification subset includes all alliances and associations attributed to the National Forests of Arkansas (Ouachita, Ozark, and St. Francis), as well as some for which more data are needed to confirm their occurrence. This report is intended for use by Forest Service personnel and other ecologists in the area. The fieldwork for the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests took place in 1998. Additonal fieldwork on the St. Francis National Forest took place in 2002.
This book provides a thorough introduction to understanding biodiversity and how it applies to the military mission, including the scientific, legal, policy, and natural resources management contexts, and offers practical advice from 17 case studies, written by resource managers at military installations.
This analysis unearths the fact that only a modest number of state wildlife action plans explicitly incorporated plant species of conservation concern. Now is the time to put the conservation needs of our nation’s flora squarely into view.
More than 80 ecosystems in the Amazon Basin of Peru and Bolivia are classified and mapped in this report. The map is the first in Latin America to use the same criteria, scales and field validation to illustrate the natural vegetation across the two countries, and is expected to serve as a model to future vegetation maps in the region.
This report provides the first-ever analysis of the conservation status of Canadian plants and animals in a global context, finding that 6.4 percent — 360 species — are of global conservation concern. The assessment draws mostly on data from NatureServe and the network of Canadian conservation data centres.