Hawksworth / Bull Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5734-2
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 399 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation

Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, not only through exploitation, but also by the prospect of climate change – as ocean currents change course, sea levels rise, and rainfall patterns change. Even the once-common cod is now under threat from the combined effects of over-fishing and a dramatic change-induced decrease in the plankton that cod larvae feed on. Meanwhile, coral reefs remain especially vulnerable to rapid sea-level changes exacerbated by the effects of tourism and disease.This book gathers together a wide range of papers reporting on key research into the biodiversity conservation of these critical and increasingly threatened habitats. Collectively these papers provide a snap-shot of the types of problems they are experiencing, and offer a wealth of topical examples which render this volume especially valuable to teachers of courses in marine, freshwater and wetlands ecology, biological conservation and ecological restoration.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawksworth, David L.

Bull, Alan T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Extinction of fen and bog plants and their habitats in Croatia.- Floristic and ecological diversity of Ranunculus aquatic habitats in the sub-Atlantic range: implications for conservation.- Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China’s northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation.- Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation.- Red Data List of Charophytes in the Balkans.- Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed.- Plant-water regime management in a wetland: consequences for a floating vegetation-nesting bird, whiskered tern Chlidonias hybridus.- Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic surveys.- Diversity of anurans across agricultural ponds in Argentina.- Species turnover: the case of stream amphibians of rainforests in the Western Ghats, southern India.- Small-scale biogeographical patterns in some groundwater Crustacea, the syncarid, Parabathynellidae..- Freshwater finfish biodiversity and conservation: an asian perspective.- The upper reached ichthyofauna of the Tietê River, São Paulo, Brazil: aspects of their diversity and conservation.- Captive breeding of endangered fish Chitala chitala (Hamilton-Buchanan) for species conservation and sustainable utilization.- Distinctive invertebrate assemblages in rockface seepages enhance lotic biodiversity in northern New Zealand.- Rare, threatened and alien species in the gastropod communities in the clay pit ponds in relation to the environmental factors (The Ciechanowska Upland, Central Poland).- Littoral mollusc communities and water quality in southern Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.- Coral diversity acrossa disturbance gradient in the Pulau Seribu reef complex off Jakarta, Indonesia.- Biological characterisation of a subtidal tunnel in São Miguel island (Azores).- Faunal change and bathymetric diversity gradient in deep-sea prosobranchs from Northeastern Atlantic.- Distribution and abundance of marine turtles in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.- Invertebrate infestation on eggs and hatchlings of the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, in Dalaman, Turkey.- Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity.- Effects of habitat alteration caused by petrochemical activities and oil spills on the habitat use and interspecific relationships among four species of Afrotropical freshwater turtles.