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| | Helsinki Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | General species diversity is remarkably high, because of original mosaic like biotope combinations: archipelago, range of hemiboreal natural biotopes, and because of profitably slow urbanisation: ramparts, harbours, land dumping, allotments, manors and villas, railways, moderate trampling and eutrophication. |
 | | A recent study on small carnivores in urban green areas shows how unnative minks and raccoondogs can be all too effective in their feeding on breeding ducks, especially in the coastal swamp and reed areas of Viikki nature conservation area. |
 | | Like commonly in Europe, also in the hemiboreal (Köppenic intermediate climate between maritime and continental) Helsinki most of the climate policies have been concentrated to the polluter pays -rule, that means local source solutions for global problems (see http://www.ytv.fi/english/air/impacts_of_climate_change.pdf). |
| www.map21ltd.com /COSTC11/Helsinki/hels-biodiv.htm (5856 words) |
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