{"title":"Over-religious Activity, A Threat to Biodiversity (3): Conserve ‘Kusha’ (Desmostachya bipinnata) before its Extinction","authors":"S. Padhy","doi":"10.1080/09766901.2017.1336008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09766901.2017.1336008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most of the Hindu religious functions can not be performed without the use of Kusha (Desmostachya bipinnata). The plant has a lot of metaphysical property to overcome anger and grief as claimed by Atharva Veda. In religious rites it is used for protection and purification of a system. It has many medicinal property as explored by Aayu rveda. In spite of restriction for its collection from natu re, there is no attempt for cultiv ation and conservation of the plant. The over use of this grass in religious practice along with day by day na rrowing of its spreading area may drag the plant towards endangered status leading to extinct.","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"82 1","pages":"44 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81453750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plant Species Composition and Diversity at the Aravalli Mountain Range in Haryana, India","authors":"P. Gaury, R. Devi","doi":"10.1080/09766901.2017.1336306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09766901.2017.1336306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The assessment of plant biodiversity specifies adaptability of species and other sets of environmental conditions, which are essential for the growth of an ecosystem. During this study, a total of 92 plant species including 15 trees, 9 shrubs and 68 herbs belonging to 34 families and 84 genera were noticed. The quadrates of 10m×10m, 05m×05m and 01m×01m sized were fixed for trees, shrubs and herbs, respectively, inside 15 p lots of 50m×50m sized to get density, abundance, relative density, relative frequency and basal area etc. The density and frequency represented the species composition, whereas the importance value index indicated the dominancy of one species over another and besides, Shannon and Simpson’s index revealed the species diversity and concentration of dominance, respectively. The Acacia arabica amongst trees, Prosopis juliflora in shrubs and Cynodon dactylon in herbs were found to be the dominant species. Although, the herbs were found dominated over shrubs, followed by trees. The Febaceae amongst trees, Febaceae and Malvaceae among shrubs and Poaceae amid herbs was observed to be the dominant family. This study provides exact information about composition of every plant species at the site, which is essential to make conservational strategies for the preservation and development of plant biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"34 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81053550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Record of Knob-Billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos (Pennant, 1769) from the Andaman Islands, India","authors":"S. Rajeshkumar, C. Raghunathan, K. Chandra","doi":"10.1080/09766901.2017.1340108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09766901.2017.1340108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many migratory birds frequently visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the winter season, as these islands are rich in tropical biodiversity. The knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) is one of the larger ducks in the family Anatidae recorded for the first time from South Andaman. This recent sighting provides a new distribution of this species in the Indian province.","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"55 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89814764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Over-religious Activity, A Threat to Biodiversity - A Case Study (4): The Indian National Bird Peacock (Pavo cristatus) is in Danger","authors":"S. Padhy","doi":"10.1080/09766901.2017.1351510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09766901.2017.1351510","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Peacock (Pavo cristatus) is the National Bird of India. It has rich religious and legendary involvement in Indian traditions. The bird’s feathers are inordinately used for religious purpose with good commercial income. The procurement of the feathers in huge number is questionable. This may cause in a setback of peacock population in the natural biodiversity, an apprehension of negative National interest.","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"96 1","pages":"51 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85833964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Ramachandra, D. Soman, Ashwath D. Naik, M. Chandran
{"title":"Appraisal of Forest Ecosystems Goods and Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation","authors":"T. Ramachandra, D. Soman, Ashwath D. Naik, M. Chandran","doi":"10.1080/09766901.2017.1346160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09766901.2017.1346160","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Valuation of ecosystem goods and services is essential to formulate sustainable development policies oriented towards the protection or restoration of ecosystems. The present study estimates the value of forest ecosystem of Uttara Kannada district by market price method. The total value of provisioning goods and services from the forests of Uttara Kannada district was estimated at Rs. 15,171 crores per year, which amoun ts to about Rs. 2 lakh per hectare per year. The study highlights the undervaluation of forest goods and services that is evident when the estimated total economic value of forest and the value of forest resources calculated in na tional income accounting framework are compared. The quantification of all benefits associated with the forest eco system goods and services would help in arriving at an appropriate policy and managerial decisions to ensure conservation while opting sustainable development path.","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"12 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78027843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Eigenbrod, Zhiyao Tang, S. Eisner, M. Flörke, Guanghua Zhao
{"title":"Spatial covariance of ecosystem services and poverty in China","authors":"F. Eigenbrod, Zhiyao Tang, S. Eisner, M. Flörke, Guanghua Zhao","doi":"10.1080/21513732.2017.1397750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2017.1397750","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ecosystem services (ESs) are known to be particularly important to the rural poor globally and effective management of such services is argued to be a sustainable pathway out of poverty. However, there is as yet no clear evidence as to how important ESs are for poverty alleviation, partly as there are very few large-scale studies addressing this issue. Here, we examine patterns of spatial covariation of income poverty and provisioning services and biodiversity using county-level data across China (n = 1924). We conduct our analyses both at the national scale and at the subnational scale. At the national scale, poor counties have significantly lower levels of agricultural provisioning services and water availability, but significantly higher levels of forest-related provisioning services and biodiversity. This finding supports the hypothesis that in general, high levels of poverty co-occur with areas with high levels of non-agricultural ESs. However, in the forest-dominated counties in southern China, low poverty, high densities of forest-related provisioning services and high levels of natural forest cover co-occur. Our results highlight the scale and context dependency of patterns of co-occurrence of poverty and ESs, and the importance of large-scale analyses for understanding the relationships between poverty and ESs. EDITED BY Berta Martín-López","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"422 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21513732.2017.1397750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42542889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods","authors":"J. Bray, J. Neilson","doi":"10.1080/21513732.2017.1316520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2017.1316520","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Certification programmes and voluntary standards for sustainability are now a common feature of many agricultural landscapes worldwide. The rapid expansion of such programmes has only recently been accompanied by concerted attempts to assess the lived experience of enrolled producers. This article reviews empirical research assessing the impact of certification programmes on coffee smallholder livelihood assets, and presents an initial framework for both conceptualising and analysing change in livelihood assets resulting from certification. Several of the reviewed studies identified enhanced livelihood assets arising from certification under specific institutional and contextual settings, but causation was difficult to establish. A greater number of studies found either neutral or mixed impacts, and a small number reported negative impacts. While a consensus has yet to be reached regarding all livelihood impacts of certification programmes, we present a series of propositions that reflect widely reported impacts. Further findings drawn from the review include: (i) stronger pre-existing institutions within the producer community are more likely to result in benefits for individual households; (ii) the value chain structures through which certification programmes are implemented are highly varied and strongly influence livelihood outcomes; and (iii) methodologically, existing studies rarely present either reliable baseline data or a realistic control group for comparison, making causation difficult to establish. EDITED BY Dagmar Mithöfer","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"216 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21513732.2017.1316520","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47393651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel energy crops: an opportunity to enhance the biodiversity of arthropod assemblages in biomass feedstock cultures?","authors":"R. Platen, J. Konrad, M. Glemnitz","doi":"10.1080/21513732.2017.1289244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2017.1289244","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Novel crops for energy production are perceived as a promising option for promoting biodiversity in agrarian landscapes. The biodiversity effects of three novel energy crops on the composition of the carabid beetle and arachnid assemblages at two sites in Northeast Germany were investigated and compared to maize. Species diversity was calculated using different diversity indices to illuminate three aspects of biodiversity: infrequency, heterogeneity, and the dominance structure of the species composition. We also calculated the diversity of habitat preferences of these two animal groups. The number of species and the biodiversity were highest in energy crops and lowest in maize. The vegetation structure explained >50% of the variance in species data. We concluded that the biodiversity effects of the novel energy plants can be attributed to the increased complexity of the vegetation structure. The investigations confirmed that the novel energy plants can contribute substantially to enhance the biodiversity of invertebrate assemblages in biomass feedstock cultures. EDITED BY Graciela Rusch","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"162 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21513732.2017.1289244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41913243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agroforestry systems for biodiversity and ecosystem services: the case of the Sibundoy Valley in the Colombian province of Putumayo","authors":"Vandreé Julián Palacios Bucheli, W. Bokelmann","doi":"10.1080/21513732.2017.1391879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2017.1391879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Camëntsá and Inga indigenous communities of the Sibundoy Valley, in the Colombian province of Putumayo, employ agroforestry systems for their livelihoods. The objectives of this enquiry are (1) to understand the importance of the biodiversity within agroforestry systems, as providers of provisioning, regulating, and cultural ecosystem services to indigenous households and (2) to assess the importance of protecting biodiversity through agroforestry systems to ensure food security. The study employed a qualitative research strategy involving participant observation and semi-structured interviews. It describes the ecosystem services delivered within the agroforestry systems and the uses given by the communities to their related biodiversity. A total of 21 uses were identified for 128 species. The provision of food, natural medicine and biochemicals, fuel, and fibres was the most important final services derived from that biodiversity. Additionally regulating and cultural ecosystem services accounted for almost one-third of the total uses of the species. Based on its findings, the study highlights the need to maintain both the agroforestry systems and their biodiversity to ensure the delivery of all three ecosystem services and the communities’ food security and livelihoods. EDITED BY John Parrotta","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"380 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21513732.2017.1391879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44911138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum","authors":"D. Shukla, A. Peck","doi":"10.1080/21513732.2017.1465169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2017.1465169","url":null,"abstract":"[This corrects the article on p. 261 in vol. 5, PMID: 23255932.].","PeriodicalId":31680,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"470 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21513732.2017.1465169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47082739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}