Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 3 Innovative Conservation Techniques and Perspectives

About this book

Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 3: Innovative Conservation Techniques and Perspectives explores operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve and/or recover biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies operational, emerging, and proposed methods for land monitoring and management across the world's biomes. This important resource on biodiversity is an ideal resource for students, professors, researchers, and both governmental and non-governmental organisations active in biodiversity conservation.

Contents

Section I: Innovative Techniques in Conservation and Remote Sensing
1. Biome Functioning and Bioindicators
2. Integration of Ecological Informatics, Remote Sensing, and Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review
3. Research progress of eDNA technology in biodiversity monitoring
4. Importance Indice
5. Importance Indice-Production Unknown
6. Long-Term Biome Biomonitoring
7. Forestry Conservation through Machine Learning Innovations
8. Remote Sensing

Section II: Global Warming Perspectives for 50 years
9. Insular Biomes
10. Glaciers
11. Deserts
12. Mediterranean and Shrublands
13. Steppes and Prairies
14. Effects of Climate Change on the distribution of dung beetle species in South American pasturelands
15. Potential changes in vegetation across Northern Eurasia in warmed climates predicted from CMIP5 climate models by the end of the century
16. Temperate Forests
17. Tropical Forests
18. Moving forward: mitigating the effect of climate change in subterranean ecosystems
19. Agriculture and Agroecology
20. Changing landscape of Agriculture: Innovative Approaches for Food Security and Sustainability in Qatar
21. Traditional Peoples and Communities: The Coming Blessing Land
22. Zoonoses and Pandemic Potential
23. Conclusions and Remarks

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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.