Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 1 Aquatic Biomes

About this book

Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 1: Aquatic Biomes explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth’s aquatic biomes, species, and climate. It summarises operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover aquatic biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to aquatic organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation.

This book is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, seeking guidance on the best practices for aquatic biome conservation.

Contents

Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Book phrase
Introduction

Section A: Freshwater
Chapter 1. Impacts on fish and microbial communities occurring in the Amazon River Basin
Chapter 2. The Danube River
Chapter 3. Linking water information systems for the preservation of hydrological resources in the Jamapa River Basin in Mexico
Chapter 4. Phytoplankton and zooplankton of the Darling-Baaka River Australia: Taxa and possible responses to climate change
Chapter 5. The Nile River
Chapter 6. Ecological resources of Indus River, impact of human activities and their conservation
Chapter 7. Rangkul-Shorkul lake system (Eastern Pamir, Tajikistan)
Chapter 8. The uniqueness of the biome at Lake Ledulu in the Rote Dead Sea area Indonesia
Chapter 9. Changing biodiversity in Lake Balaton—A long-term, catchment-scale perspective
Chapter 10. Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico: A lake under threat
Chapter 11. Lake Titicaca
Chapter 12. Lake Victoria
Chapter 13. Macquarie Marshes, Australia: Aquatic ecosystem function and microbial biodiversity
Chapter 14. Danube Delta wetland
Chapter 15. The Grijalva-Usumacinta floodplain: Historical ecology of a wetland under long-term human use and large climatic variability
Chapter 16. Effect of environmental and spatial factors on the limnological dynamics of temporary habitats in the Pantanal wetland

Section B: Marine
Chapter 17. Mangrove estuaries in the tropical southwestern Atlantic
Chapter 18. Brazilian’s coastal ecosystems: Human impacts and sustainability
Chapter 19. Atlantic Ocean
Chapter 20. Challenges and strategies for conserving and managing the Indian Ocean for a sustainable blue economy: A case study approach
Chapter 21. The Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems around the Antarctic Peninsula
Chapter 22. The Arctic Ocean

Index

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Biography

Dr Germano Demolin-Leite is a researcher for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, as well as a full professor at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (ICA/UMFG). He currently teaches courses on Animal Biology and Plant Production. Dr Demolin-Leite's recent research focuses on degraded area recuperation. He has been the Deputy Chief and the Chief of the Plant Science Sector at ICA/UMFG as well as the Coordinator of the Zoology & Entomology Laboratory. He has published over 200 scholarly journal articles and six books. Dr. Demolin-Leite also serves on the review board for numerous journals and periodicals, including Neotropical Entomology and Elsevier's Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.