Marine, freshwater, and wetlands biodiversity conservation / edited by David L. Hawksworth and Alan T. Bull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawksworth, D. L.

Bull, Alan T.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Topics in biodiversity and conservation ; v. 4.

Topics in biodiversity and conservation ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aquatic biodiversity conservation.

Endangered species.

Aquatic ecology.

Wetland conservation.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2006]

Summary:

Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, not only through exploitation, but also by the prospect of climate change - as ocean currents change course, sea levels rise, and rainfall patterns change. Even the once-common cod is now under threat from the combined effects of over-fishing and a dramatic change-induced decrease in the plankton that cod larvae feed on. Meanwhile, coral reefs remain especially vulnerable to rapid sea-level changes exacerbated by the effects of tourism and disease.

This book gathers together a wide range of papers reporting on key research into the biodiversity conservation of these critical and increasingly threatened habitats. Collectively these papers provide a snap-shot of the types of problems they are experiencing, and offer a wealth of topical examples which render this volume especially valuable to teachers of course in marine, freshwater and wetlands ecology, biological conservation and ecological restoration.

Contents:

Extinction of fen and bog plants and their habitats in Croatia / Jasenka Topic, Zvjezdana Stancic 3

Floristic and ecological diversity of Ranunculus aquatic habitats in the sub-Atlantic range: implications for conservation / C. Mony, J.E Mony, G. Thiebaut, S. Muller 15

Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China's northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation / Zhongqiang li, Dan Yu, Wen Xiong, Qiang Wang, Manghui Tu 33

Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation / Zhongqiang Li, Dan Yu, Wen Xiong, Dong Wang, Manghuitu 49

Red Data List of Charophytes in the Balkans / Jelena Blazencic, Branka Stevanovic, Zivojin Blazencic, Vladimir Stevanovi 77

Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed / Mihai Valcu 91

Plant-water regime management in a wet-land: consequences for a floating vegetation-nesting bird, whiskered tern Chlidonias hybridus / Jean-Marc Paillisson, Sebastien Reeber, Alexandre Carpenter, Loic Marion 101

Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic-surveys / Shane R. De Solla, Kim J. Fernie, Glenn C. Barrett, Christine A. Bishop 113

Diversity of anurans across agricultural ponds in Argentina / Paola M. Peltzer, Rafael C. Lajmanovich, Andres M. Attademo, Adolfo H. Beltzer 131

Species turnover: the case of stream amphibians of rainforests in the Western Ghats, southern India / Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Ajith Kumar, Ravi Chellam 147

Small-scale biogeographical patterns in some ground-water Crustacea, the syncarid, Parabathynellidae. / A.I. Camacho, T. Torres, C.J. Puch, J.E. Ortiz, Antonio G. Valdecasas 159

Freshwater finfish biodiversity and conservation: an asian perspective / Thuy T.T. Nguyen, Sena S De Silva 175

The upper reached ichthyofauna of the Tiete River, Sao Paulo, Brazil: aspects of their diversity and conservation / Fabio Soller Dias Da Silva, Jose Roberto Manna De Deus, Alexandre Wagner Silva Hilsdorf 201

Captive breeding of endangered fish Chitala chitala (Hamilton-Buchanan) for species conservation and sustainable utilization / Uttam Kumar Sarkar, Prashant Kumar Deepak, Raje Singh Negi, Shriprakash Singh, Dhurendra Kapoor 211

Distinctive invertebrate assemblages in rockface seepages enhance lotic biodiversity in northern New Zealand / Kevin J. Collier, Brian J. Smith 223

Rare, threatened and alien species in the gastropod communities in the clay pit ponds in relation to the environmental factors (The Ciechanowska Upland, Central Poland) / Iga Lewin, Adam Smolinski 249

Littoral mollusc communities and water quality in southern Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada / Eva Pip 269

Coral diversity across a disturbance gradient in the Pulau Seribu reef complex off Jakarta, Indonesia / Daniel F.R. Cleary, Suharsono, Bert W. Hoeksema 285

Biological characterisation of a subtidal tunnel in Sao Miguel island (Azores) / J. Micael, J.M.N. Azevedo, A.C. Costa 307

Faunal change and bathymetric diversity gradient in deep-sea prosobranchs from Northeastern Atlantic / Celia Olabarria 317

Distribution and abundance of marine turtles in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam / Mark Hamann, Chu The Cuong, Nguyen Duy Hong, Pham Thuoc, Bui Thi Thuhien 335

Invertebrate infestation on eggs and hatchlings of the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, in Dalaman, Turkey / Yusuf Katilmis, Rasit Urhan, Yakup Kaska, Eyup Baskale 353

Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity / Jane Fromont, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Gary A. Kendrick 363

Effects of habitat alteration caused by petrochemical activities and oil spills on the habitat use and interspecific relationships among four species of Afrotropical freshwater turtles / Luca Luiselli, Godfrey C. Akani, Edoardo Politano 383.

Notes:

"Reprint from Biodiversity and conservation, volume 15:11 (2006)".

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781402057335

1402057334

1402057342

9781402057342

OCLC:

141200623