Why should we be concerned about this loss of biodiversity ... Conservation Biology 17, 1548-1558 (2003). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The State of the World's Plant ...

Biodiversity runs the gamut from the genetic diversity in a single population to the ... and only 40,000 to 50,000 species have had their conservation status assessed. Roughly a third of these are ...

Together with the FAO, the IAEA assists Member States in developing and adopting nuclear-based technologies, such as the induced mutation technique, to optimise plant biodiversity ... conservation, ...

Biodiversity ... studies, it is clear that ecosystem functioning often depends on species richness, species composition, and functional group richness and can also depend on species evenness and ...