Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 2 Terrestrial Biomes

About this book

Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 2: Terrestrial Biomes explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth's terrestrial biomes, species, and climate. The book summarises operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover terrestrial biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to terrestrial organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation. This is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, and governmental and non-governmental organisations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

Contents

Section I: Deserts
1. Antarctica Desert
2. Northern Great Rift Valley: deserts and otherbiomes
3. Ecosystem services in the Atacama region, Chile
4. Chihuahuan Desert
5. Simpson Desert
6. Indian Thar
7. Sahara and other African Deserts

Section II: Insular Biomes
8. Madagascar and Mauritius as Insular Biomes

Section III: Mediterranean
9. Mediterranean Basin
10. An Afromontane biome in South Africa:ecological quality of natural vs transformed habitats

Section IV: Prairies and Steppes
11. Prairies and Steppes: Cradles of Grassland Biodiversity
12. European steppes and forest-steppes
13. American

Section V: Shrublands
14. Biodiversity and Ecological Dynamics of the Fynbos Biome in South Africa
15. Mediterranean Shrublands
16. Xeric Shrublands

Section VI: Savannas
17. Land degradation and its associated effects on dung beetle species in African Savanna
18. Asia
19. Australian Savannas
20. American Savanna: A brief review

Section VII: Subterranean
21. Subterranean

Section VIII: Taiga
22. Asia
23. North Europe

Section IX: Temperate Forests
24. Temperate forest of Asia in the wake of climate change
25. Temperate forests at Southern South America:Challenges for management and conservation to face climate change
26. Europe Temperate Forests
27. North America

Section X: Tropical Forests
28. Conservation status of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in African tropical forests
29. The use of phytotelmata by amphibians in the Amazon rainforest: A review and case study
30. Asia's Ecological Tapestry: Navigating Conservation Challenges in the Era of Global Warming
31. Atlantic Forest
32. Biodiversity, function and change of tropical rainforests of Borneo
33. Caatinga

Section XI: Tundras
34. Asian Arctic tundra: Vast permafrost ecosystems under increasing pressure by climate change and industrial development
35. The importance of Belarus tundra peat bogs for biodiversity conservation in global warming condition
36. North American tundras: Imperilled landscapes at a continent's latitudinal and altitudinal extremes

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Biography

Dr Germano Leão Demolin-Leite is a researcher for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, as well as a full professor in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at 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 Coordinator of the Zoology & Entomology Laboratory and Insectarium G.W.G. Moraes (Trichogramma sp.). He has published over 230 scholarly journal articles and six books. Dr Demolin-Leite also serves on the review board for numerous journals and periodicals, including Elsevier's Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.