Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere - WBGU

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Biosphere and biological diversity 10
Sustainability – what is it? 12
Overview of the syndromes of Global Change 27
Mechanisms that lead to species diversity as illustrated by the impact of fire 31
Use and substitution of ligneous plants in the last 120 years 36
Arabidopsis: The story of the wallflower that became a queen 38
The importance of orchids as indicators of environmental change 39
Stability, redundancy and keystone species 47
Restoration ecology: Restoring degraded ecosystems 48
A taxonomy of ecosystem services and products and associated value
categories 51
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora (CITES) 52
Biological safety in existing international law 56
Syntex – a historical example of bioprospecting with global impact 62
Aspirin – a one-hundred year history 66
The Taxol Story – an example of modern bioprospecting 67
Bionics 69
Genetic vulnerability 75
Genetic variability at the level of varieties in selected regions 79
The gene pool concept 82
The principle of the core collection 84
Organisms 90
Significance of the Species-Area Relationship for different habitats 105
Case studies of indigenous communities 114
Historical development of the perception of nature and the landscape in western
industrialized countries 116
In-situ conservation of genetic resources in protected areas 127
The modified IUCN protected areas categories agreed at the 4th World Congress
on National Parks and Protected Areas 128
Categories of species 129
Overview of ex-situ nature conservation 130
Cotton: Intensive monoculture of an important crop 147
Forests and biological diversity 150
Expanding the Desertification Convention into a global Soil Convention:
problems and perspectives 160
Certification of sustainable forest management 161
Why do the annual sizes of fish populations fluctuate? 165
Indigenous peoples 173
Species introductions by ships 180
Breeding birds under stress 185
Obergurgl: Why one of the world’s first ecosystem management projects
failed 188
Zoning in biosphere reserves 199