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Removed text from the plant biodiversity and climate section
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A 2007 study looked into the relationship between plant diversity and phenology, experimentally determining that plant diversity influenced the broader community flowering time.[1] Flowering time is an important piece in the pollination puzzle as it impacts the food supply for pollinators.[2] This in turn can play a major role in agriculture [2] and global food security.[3]
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I've removed this list as it's not overly helpful for the readers. It also overlaps with the list that is provided just above in the same section. Also, the source provided doesn't show this list. Also, "threats to conservation" is not necessarily the same as "causes for biodiversity loss".
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According to the
IUCN the main direct threats to conservation fall in eleven categories:[1]
Transportation & service corridors: service corridors (for example electrical & phone wires, oil & gas pipelines), transport corridors (roads, railroads, shipping lanes, and flight paths), collisions with the vehicles using the corridors, associated accidents and catastrophes (oil spills, electrocution, fire)
Biological resource usages: hunting, persecution (predator control and pest control, superstitions), plant destruction or removal (human consumption, free-range livestock foraging), logging or wood harvesting, fishing
Human intrusions & activities that alter, destroy, disturb habitats and species from exhibiting natural behaviors: recreational activities, war, civil unrest, & military exercises, illegal activities (smuggling, vandalism), newly built housing
Natural system modifications:
fire suppression or creation, water management (for example dam construction,
groundwater pumping), other modifications (for example
land reclamation), removing/reducing human maintenance (for example lack of indigenous management of key ecosystems, ceasing supplemental feeding of condors)
Invasive & problematic species, pathogens & genes:
invasive species, problematic native species, introduced genetic material (for example pesticide-resistant crops, genetically modified insects for biocontrol), pathogens & microbes
I wonder about one thing: the related decline articles, i.e.
Decline in amphibian populations,
Decline in wild mammal populations,
Decline in insect populations , are not specifically about decline of diversity but could just be about decline in total numbers. E.g. if you split a very large wildlife area into two, and flatten the one half but leave the other half intact, then the total number of wildlife was halved but the biodiversity (number of species) might have stayed the same.
Should we therefore explain somewhere in this article how a decline in populations usually (but not always?) also means a decline in biodiversity?
EMsmile (
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10:34, 5 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Simplify sentence on conservation efforts?
I think this sentence ought to be simplified, perhaps broken into two. It is using quite a bit of jargon and not very clear for our target group. I mark in bold what I find unclear: As of 2022 at least 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles)—44% of terrestrial area—require conservation attention (ranging from protected areas to land-use policies) in order to secure important biodiversity areas, ecologically intact areas, and optimal locations for representation of species ranges and ecoregions.. I actually question if this sentence adds much value here or might be better off in the article on
nature conservation, or a similar one. Pinging
USer:RCraig09 as you had added this content.
EMsmile (
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12:32, 6 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I've simplified the language, which is definitely appropriate in its /* Land use intensification */ section. The content may also be appropriate content in other articles in the See also hatnote in that section. —RCraig09 (
talk)17:59, 6 February 2024 (UTC)reply