简介:ThispaperhighlightstheresearchanddevelopmentactivitiesbeingdoneonurbanforestryinthePhilippines.TherolethatR&Dplaysinurbanforestryislikewisediscussedintheintroduction.Recommendedtreespeciesforurbanplantingarepresentedincludingtheircharacteristicsanddistribution.Researchesrelatedtourbanforestrybeingconductedarelistedwithashortdescriptionofeachproject.Developmentactivitiesonurbanforestryarelikewisediscussed.Finally,recommendedR&DagendaandresearchableareasbasedonthePhilippineAgenda21andtheDepartmentofEnvironmentandNaturalResources(DENR)R&DFrameworkarepresented.
简介:美国Myriad案是引发已分离DNA分子是否具有可专利性论争的重要案件。2011年,美国联邦巡回法院推翻纽约南区法院作出的一审判决,认定已分离DNA分子具有可专利性,这一裁判的根本性逆转更是激起利益各方的广泛关注和持久争辩。争辩中,对立双方往往忽略一个事实,即基因、天然DNA和已分离DNA三者内涵和外延不尽相同,应予以区分。因而,认为所有基因及DNA分子都不具有可专利性是不可取的,但不加区分地一律赋予授权资格同样毫无依据。判断已分离DNA分子的可专利性资格,重点应考量与天然DAN分子的组分差异,并采用多重标准综合判断。同时,应严格将科学发现排除在可专利性资格范围之外。
简介:ThehistoricaltransitionoftimberdistributionpatterninChinawaspresentedfirstlywithmainpartsoftimberflowsinChina,whichincludedtimbermarkets,timbertransportsystemandregulationsoftimbertransport.BasedontheoverviewontropicaltimberflowsinChina,thetradeflowsoftropicaltimberfromproductionandimportsoftropicaltimbertoexportoftropicaltimberproductswereanalyzedbyvividillustrations.Atthesametime,problemsintimbertradeflowsinChinawereanalysedintheend.
简介:Inaviewofnaturalconditionsofestablishingnaturereserve,anindexsystemwaspreparedforquantitativeassessmentonstatusofendangeredspecies,andthusdegreeofendangeredspeciesinTibetwasevaluated.Takingasub-ecozoneasbasicunit,top5animalsand1plantwithhighEaswellasthenumberofspeciesineachunitwereenumerated;andthedegreeoflandutilizationwasfiguredout.Afterward,weselected6coefficients,assignedweight,andframedformulatoreckonproportionofnaturereserve,thusanareaofnaturereserveineachsub-ecozonewasobtained.In5schemesofweightassignment,aschemewithmediumareaofnaturereservewasselected.Allsub-ecozoneswereclassifiedinto4gradespriorconservation,1wasingradeA,2ingradeB,2ingradeC,and11ingradeD.Totalplannedareawasapproximately365135km2,about48834km2smallerthantheactualareaof413969km2,ratioofnaturereserveinTibetdiminishesfrom34.4%to30.38%.Basedon3factorsofhumandisturbance,ratioofbuffer-experimentalzoneinproposednaturereservewascalculated.Itwasdemonstratedthatexistingsizeofnaturereservesisexcessiveonthewhole,andtheirdistributionisnotreasonableentirely.Thesizeofnaturereservesin3sub-ecozonesofnorthernChangtangshoulddecrease,anddecrementofareaisapportionedamongother13sub-ecozoneswhichshouldincreasenaturereserve.HeterogeneityofregionaldistributionofrarespeciesinTibetisquiteobvious,soproposedareadistributionofnaturereservesismorescatteredthantheexisting.