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Biodiversity – the variety of genes, species, and ecosystems – is the basis for long-term ecosystem health and stability. Fifty percent of the world's biodiversity is inhabited in tropical forests. The world's biodiversity is diminishing and dwindling before our eyes at an alarming rate day by day. Half of the world's wetlands have been lost in the past century; 80 percent of grasslands are suffering from soil degradation; and 20 percent of drylands are in danger of becoming deserts. Every minute of the day, 28 hectares of forest are lost the world over. Wetlands and forests are being cleared for urban and industrial development and encroached upon by local people. Because of the irreversibility of species extinction and habitat loss, this rampant depletion of our biodiversity exerts a terrible toll on both the natural and economic world, affecting both current and future generations. It is the need of the hour to preserve and conserve the biological diversity of all wetlands, forests and other ecosystems of the world. Seeing the importance of this, the United Nations designated the years 2011–2020 as the "United Nations Decade on Biodiversity".
Biodiversity of Tropical Wetlands and Forests is the compiled research of Dr Nirmal Kumar and his team over the last couple of decades on a diverse array of impacts on the biodiversity of tropical wetlands and forests. Divided into two parts, the volume provides valuable information on spatial and temporal fluctuations of phytoplankton, zooplankton, macrophytes, birds, and seaweed biodiversity of important tropical wetlands, including ponds, lakes, rivers, mangroves, and estuarine and coastal environments. It looks at their relationships and interactions with various hydro-geochemical nutrients along with limiting factors and quantification of anthropogenic pressures. The second part of Biodiversity of Tropical Wetlands and Forests presents an evaluation of plant and tree biodiversity in relation to soil nutrient content, concentration, nutrient dynamics, ethnobotanical, aesthetic values, resources use patterns, phenology of floral elements, biomass, net primary productivity, carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forests, wildlife sanctuaries, and plantations.
Providing a plethora of valuable information, Biodiversity of Tropical Wetlands and Forests will be a rich resource for researchers and students in the forestry, life sciences, environmental science, and related areas.
Trophic Status of Certain Significant Ponds
B. C. Rana and J. I. Nirmal Kumar
Aquatic Plants in Relation to Chlorophyll: A Content
J. I. Nirmal Kumar
Ecology and Pollution of Aquatic Biodiversity
J. I. Nirmal Kumar
Ecological Principles of Freshwater Environment
J. I. Nirmal Kumar
Hydro-Chemical Properties for Ground Waters Quality
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Ira Bhatt, Rita N. Kumar, and Minal Patel
Anthropogenic Pressures of the Ramsar Site: The Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N Kumar
Investigation on Anthropogenic Discharges in Mahi Creek and Adjoining in Coastal Waters
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Kimani Sohil, and A. N. Kadam
Water Quality of Tropical Permanent Estuarine System
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, B. George, R. N. Kumar, P. R. Sajish, and S. Viyol
Measurement of Methane Emission in Two Rice Fields
J. I. Nirmal Kumar and Shailendra Viyol
Zooplankton Diversity in a Tropical Wetland System
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Manishita Das, Rana Mukherji, and Rita N. Kumar
Hydrochemical Properties in Relation to Phytoplankton Composition of Tropical Community Wetland
J. I. Nirmal Kumar and Cini Oommen
Assessment of Geochemical Properties of the Sabarmati River and Kharicut Canal, India
Rita N. Kumar, Solanki Rajal, and J. I. Nirmal Kumar
Hydrochemical Characteristics of the Coastal Water of the Narmada Estuary
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Basil George, Rita N Kumar, Sajish P Ravi, and Shailendra Viyol
Phytoplankton Distribution in Relation to Hydro-Chemical Parameters of the Tapi Estuary
Basil George, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, and Rita N. Kumar
Water Quality Parameters of the Mahi Estuary with Statistical Evaluation
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, P. R. Sajish, Rita Kumar, George Basil, and Shamiyan Khan
Seaweeds with Reference to Phytochemical Analysis and Antifungal Activity
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Megha Barot, and Rita N. Kumar
Environmental Variables in Relation to Phytoplankton Assemblage of the Narmada Estuarine Region
Basil George, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, and Rita N. Kumar
Hydro-chemical Characteristics with Reference to Seaweed Diversity
Megha Barot, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, and Rita N. Kumar
Socio-Cultural Status and Biodiversity of Two Tropical Forests
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Rita N. Kumar, B. S. Hiren Kumar, and Amit N. Gohil
Plant Species Diversity of Two Tropical Forests
J. l. Nirmat Kumar, Rita N. Kumar, Amit N. Gohil and, and B. S. Hiran Kumar
Khatana Forest Tree Species Diversity
J. l. Nirmal Kumar, Rita N. Kumar, and Shintu Joseph
Avifaunal Diversity of the Waghai Forest, Northern Part of Western Ghats
J. l. Nirmal Kumar, Geetika Sharma, Rita N. Kumar, and Shintu Joseph
Ecology and Tree Species Diversity of the Waghai Forest of the Northern Part of Western Ghats
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Rita N. Kumar, and Shintu Joseph
Plant Species Used for Ethnobotanical Values of Forests of the Extreme Northern Part of Western Ghats
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Anthropogenic Interventions of the Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Selected Floral Elements for Aesthetic Values of the Khatana and Waghai Forests of the Extreme Northern Part of Western Ghats
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Tree Species Diversity of the Waghai Forest, North Extreme Part of Western Ghats as a Resource Use Pattern by Local Inhabitants
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Local People’s Involvement in the Jambughoda Wildlife Sanctuary
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Phenological Studies of the Tropical Waghai Forest, North Extreme Part of Western Ghats
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Tribal Community Dependency on Plant Species in the Saputara and Purna Forests
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Hiren Soni, and Rita N. Kumar
Nutrient Content in the Aboveground Biomass of Teak Plantation in a Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, R. N. Kumar, R. Kumar Bhoi, P. R. Sajish
Soil Nutrient Status in Relation to Tree Species Diversity of Three Sites of Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Rita N. Kumar, Rohit Kumar Bhoi, and P. R Sajish
Temporal and Spatial Variations in Soil Microbial Biomass C, N and P in Different Types Land Uses of Dry Deciduous Forest Ecosystem
K. Patel, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, J. I. N. Kumar, and R. Kumar Bhoi
Net Primary Productivity and Biomass in Three Different Aged Butea Forest Ecosystems
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, P. R. Sajish, Rita N. Kumar, and Kanti Patel
Mangrove Forest in Relation to Its Nutrient Dynamics in an Avicennia marina(Forsk.) Vierh.
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, P. R. Sajish, Rita N. Kumar, and Kanti Patel
GHG Emissions from Soil-Atmosphere Exchange and Their Environmental Factors in Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest and Eucalyptus Plantations
J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Patel Kanti, Rita N Kumar, and Priyakanchini Gupta
Soil-Atmosphere Exchange of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Manilkara zapota and Mangifera indica Plantations
Dhruti Patel, Pankaj Kumar, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Srikantha Herath, and Ram Avtar
