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Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity
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Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity
One of the often overlooked areas of vegetation management, and it’s related environmental services, is it’s role in preserving the environment through preserving biodiversity. The biggest threat to our environment is the loss of native species, to species which are not native to our area. Good vegetation management practices help [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Infrastructure, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Infrastucture, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management 
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Value of Natural Biodiversity Services
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Biodiversity can seem to be a complicated issue. The seeming complexity can be furthered by oversimplification leading to misunderstanding at one point, and the exaggeration of the complexity at another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the valuation of biodiversity services.
Biodiversity services, that is, natural biodiversity services as opposed to human efforts to [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Natural biodiversity services, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Biodiversity and pest control, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Invasive species, Native habitat, Natural biodiversity services, Nature, Pest control, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services One Comment
Biodiversity Services
Biodiversity Services
Preserving biodiversity may be the major ecological and environmental issue of this century. Whether it is in the worlds rainforest regions, the Pacific Islands, Europe, Asia, Africa, or right here on the North American continent, in East Texas. Any species that cannot continue to exist due to fire, chainsaw, or even other, invasive plants, [...]
September 21, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Green services Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Green services, Habitat Management, Non native plants One Comment
Environmental Services |Exotic Vegetation Management
Environmental Services: Exotic Vegetation Management
It’s a fact of life.
Plants move. They migrate from one area to another using a bewildering variety of locomotion methods. Sometimes they travel by hitch hiking on people or animals, sometimes by wind or water, but travel they do.
If there is an invasive plant in your area, the chances are pretty [...]
September 7, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Habitat Management Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Wildlife habitat No Comments