Marine Freshwater And Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation

Author : David L. Hawksworth,Alan T. Bull
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402057342

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Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation by David L. Hawksworth,Alan T. Bull Pdf

Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, through exploitation, and also by climate change, as ocean currents change course, sea levels rise, and rainfall patterns change. This book gathers papers on the biodiversity conservation of these increasingly threatened habitats. The papers provide a snapshot of the problems they face, and offer numerous examples which render this volume valuable to educators in marine, freshwater and wetlands ecology, conservation and ecological restoration.

Author : C. Max Finlayson,Angela H. Arthington,Jamie Pittock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351849968

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Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas by C. Max Finlayson,Angela H. Arthington,Jamie Pittock Pdf

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marginal part of terrestrial protected area management, freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas, including rivers, wetlands, peatlands, other freshwater and brackish ecosystems, and estuaries. The authors define inland aquatic ecosystems, showing just how diverse and widespread they are. They examine the principles and processes that are essential for the conservation of freshwater ecosystems and aquatic species. Major categories of threats to freshwater ecosystems and the flow-on implications for protected area design are described. Practical case studies are used to illustrate principles and practices applied around the world. Specific management needs of the main types of freshwater ecosystems are considered, as well as the management of freshwaters in the broader landscape, showing how natural resource governance processes can be harnessed to better manage freshwater biodiversity. The book offers commentary on how to adapt freshwater conservation practices to climate change and ends with an insightful synthesis.

Author : Roland Bobbink,Boudewijn Beltman,Jos T.A. Verhoeven,Dennis F. Whigham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540331896

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Wetlands: Functioning, Biodiversity Conservation, and Restoration by Roland Bobbink,Boudewijn Beltman,Jos T.A. Verhoeven,Dennis F. Whigham Pdf

This book gives a broad and well-integrated overview of recent major scientific results in wetland science and their applications in natural resource management. After an introduction into the field, 12 chapters contributed by internationally known experts summarize the state of the art on a multitude of topics. The coverage is divided into three sections: Functioning of Plants and Animals in Wetlands; Conservation and Management of Wetlands; and Wetland Restoration and Creation.

Author : A. J. Hails
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : UCSD:31822023033319

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Wetlands, Biodiversity and the Ramsar Convention by A. J. Hails Pdf

Author : Nicole Silk,Kristine Ciruna
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266192

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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation by Nicole Silk,Kristine Ciruna Pdf

A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. More importantly, it offers specific strategies and suggestions for managers to use in establishing new conservation initiatives or improving the effectiveness of existing initiatives. The book: offers an understanding of fundamental issues by explaining how ecosystems are structured and how they support biodiversity; provides specific information and approaches for identifying areas most in need of protection; examines promising strategies that can help reduce biodiversity loss; and describes design considerations and methods for measuring success within an adaptive management framework. The book draws on experience and knowledge gained during a five-year project of The Nature Conservancy known as the Freshwater Initiative, which brought together a range of practitioners to create a learning laboratory for testing ideas, approaches, tools, strategies, and methods. For professionals involved with land or water management-including state and federal agency staff, scientists and researchers working with conservation organizations, students and faculty involved with freshwater issues or biodiversity conservation, and policymakers concerned with environmental issues-the book represents an important new source of information, ideas, and approaches.

Author : David Dudgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521768030

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Freshwater Biodiversity by David Dudgeon Pdf

Fresh waters are disproportionately rich in species, and represent global hotspots of biodiversity. However, they are also hotspots of endangerment.

Author : H. Segers,K. Martens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402041112

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Aquatic Biodiversity II by H. Segers,K. Martens Pdf

Freshwater Biodiversity is a much underestimated component of global biodiversity, both in its diversity and in its potential to act as models for fundamental research in evolutionary biology and ecosystem studies. Freshwater organisms also reflect quality of water bodies and can thus be used to monitor changes in ecosystem health. The present book comprises a unique collection of primary research papers spanning a wide range of topics in aquatic biodiversity studies, and including a first global assessment of specific diversity of freshwater animals. The book also presents a section on the interaction between scientists and science policy managers. A target opinion paper lists priorities in aquatic biodiversity research for the next decade and several reactions from distinguished scientists discuss the relevance of these items from different points of view: fundamental ecology, taxonomy and systematics, needs of developing countries, present-day biodiversity policy at European and at global scales. It is believed that such a platform for the interaction between science and science policy is an absolute necessity for the efficient use of research budgets in the future.

Author : Caroly A. Shumway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015053754829

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Forgotten Waters by Caroly A. Shumway Pdf

Author : Dickens, Chris,McCartney, Matthew
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Water-Related Ecosystems by Dickens, Chris,McCartney, Matthew Pdf

In Filho, W. L.; Azul, A. M.; Brandli, L.; Salvia, A. L.; Wall, T. (Eds). Clean water and sanitation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer

Author : P. Keith Probert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521326858

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Marine Conservation by P. Keith Probert Pdf

A crucial, timely synthesis of issues and solutions for the conservation of the world's seas and marine life.

Author : Jocelyne Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191079122

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Freshwater Ecology and Conservation by Jocelyne Hughes Pdf

This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the vast amount of literature for freshwater ecology and conservation that is currently dispersed in manuals, toolkits, journals, handbooks, 'grey' literature, and websites. Successful conservation outcomes are ultimately built on a sound ecological framework in which every species must be assessed and understood at the individual, community, catchment and landscape level of interaction. For example, freshwater ecologists need to understand hydrochemical storages and fluxes, the physical systems influencing freshwaters at the catchment and landscape scale, and the spatial and temporal processes that maintain species assemblages and their dynamics. A thorough understanding of all these varied processes, and the techniques for studying them, is essential for the effective conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems.

Author : Leah Bendell-Young,Patricia Gallaugher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461514930

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Waters in Peril by Leah Bendell-Young,Patricia Gallaugher Pdf

Who Speaks for the Oceans? The question has been asked a lot in recent years - just who is looking out for our oceans? Covering over seventy percent of the earth's surface it is the world's largest common property resource,jojntly owned by over six billion humans. It is the foundation for life on earth as we know it. Over the years, many people have spoken about various aspects of our ocean environments and they have spoken to different audiences in many different ways. For many in the public realm, Jacques Cousteau spoke for the ocean. Since his passing, no single voice with the sallle public identity or recognition has emerged. Certainly the many governments bordering our oceans cannot agree on common principles or issues of ocean use and management. We might be tempted think that we do not have an ocean spokesperson or champion, but we would be wrong. Today, the rapidly growing number of scientists working hard to expand our under standing of our ocean realm are the ocean voices we should listen to. At the same time as our scientists advance their understanding of the oceans, we all need to advance our abilities and commitment to communicate on behalf of the oceans with broader and broader audiences who need to be aware of where things stand. Often called "the last great frontier", earth's oceans are vast, widely varied, and are hard to get to, arid into, to do the research we need done.

Author : Neville C. Morgan,Peter S. Maitland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401158589

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Conservation Management of Freshwater Habitats by Neville C. Morgan,Peter S. Maitland Pdf

In this book the authors have applied research knowledge to the solution of practical problems facing wildlife conservation in freshwater habitats. Subjects covered include: evaluation of the conservation interest of sites; practical protection and management of freshwater habitats; species conservation.

Author : Jyoti K. Parikh
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056963666

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Sustainable Management of Wetlands by Jyoti K. Parikh Pdf

`This work is a very comprehensive and multidisciplinary study of Indian wetlands.... This is a valuable book for scholars and students in the field of environment, ecology, development, biology, geography, economics and anthropology... it is an invaluable resource for policy makers, environmentalists, industrialists and NGO's' - International Journal of Environmental Studies Wetlands are among the most productive and biologically rich ecosystems on earth, yet their management has been gradually neglected. This has endangered the livelihoods and survival of the people depending upon these wetlands. This is the first book that studies the protection and management of wetlands from a multidisciplinary angle by India's premier ecologists.

Author : B. Anjan Kumar Prusty,Rachna Chandra,P. A. Azeez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788132237150

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Wetland Science by B. Anjan Kumar Prusty,Rachna Chandra,P. A. Azeez Pdf

This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline ‘wetland science’ and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia. The book presents 30 chapters by an international mix of experts in the field, who highlight and discuss diverse issues concerning wetlands in South Asia as case studies. The chapters are divided into different themes that represent broad issues of concern in a systematic manner keeping in mind students, researchers and general readers at large. The book introduces readers to the basics and theory of wetland science, supplemented by case studies and examples from the region. It also offers a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in allied fields such as environmental studies, limnology, wildlife biology, aquatic biology, marine biology, and landscape ecology. To date the interdisciplinary field ‘wetland science’ is still rarely treated as a distinct discipline in its own right. Further, courses on wetland science aren’t taught at any of the world’s most prestigious universities; instead, the topics falling under this discipline are generally handled under the disciplines ‘ecology’ or under the extremely broad heading of ‘environmental studies’. It is high time that ‘Wetland Science’ be acknowledged as an interdisciplinary sub-discipline, which calls for an attempt to consolidate its various subtopics and present them comprehensively. Thus, this book also serves as a reference base on wetlands and facilitates further discussions on specific issues involved in safeguarding a sustainable future for the wetland habitats of this region.