Conference paper
HABITAT DIVERSITY AND BIODIVERSITY – ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, ANTROPOGENIC IMPACTS AND THE CONVENTION ON BIODIVERSITY
Milan Meštrov
; Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb
Abstract
Both the landscape and biodiversity are based on relations and events inside biotops and ecosystems, which comprise plants and animal species, and lower and higher biosystems. Human activities considerably decrease biodiversity. As a result of this activities, life condition become more uniform with increase the monotony of structure and ecological events. Consequently, the planet becoming more endangered with decreasing in habitat and biological diversity. In this way not only plants and animals bring into danger but human being also.
The Convention on Biological Diversity were framed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro in view of threaten various habitats and world's biodiversity.
Basic aims of the Convention on Biological Diversity signed also by the Republic of Croatia are: conservation of biodiversity, sustainable management of its components and equitably distributed benefit obtained through utilisation of genetically resources. This includes also the adequate approach to the genetic resources and adequate transfer of relevant technologies, considering both the adequate financing and all rights upon mentioned resources and technologies.
All parties are in duty bound to carry out a number of measures aimed to achievement all mentioned goals. Some of this tasks and measures will be treated in the exposition.
Keywords
anthropogenic impacts; biodiversity; ecological foundation; Convention on biodiversity; contemporary ecology; habitat diversity
Hrčak ID:
141745
URI
Publication date:
15.9.2000.
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